Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 28

Hansel and Grethel sat down by the fire, and when it was noon, each ate the piece of bread; and because they could hear the blows of an axe, they thought their father was near: but it was not an axe, but a branch which he had bound to a withered tree, so as to be blown to and fro by the wind.

Who acts: you, Grethel, fire, each, wife, father · What happens: hansel, sit down, be, eat, hear, think · To what, where: noon, piece, blows, axe, branch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Grethel, fire, each), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hansel	hansel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
3	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hansel	conj
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ate	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ate	cc
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 noon	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 noon	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 noon	cop
14	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ate	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 noon	punct
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 ate	nsubj
17	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hansel	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 piece	det
19	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ate	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 bread	case
21	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 piece	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 hear	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hear	cc
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 hear	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hear	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 hear	aux
27	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hansel	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 blows	det
29	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hear	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 axe	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 axe	det
32	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 blows	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 thought	punct
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 thought	nsubj
35	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hear	advcl
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 father	nmod:poss
37	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 near	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 near	cop
39	near	near	ADV	_	35 thought	ccomp
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	46 axe	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 axe	cc
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 axe	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 axe	cop
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 axe	advmod
45	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 axe	det
46	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hansel	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 branch	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 branch	cc
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 branch	det
50	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 axe	appos
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 bound	nsubj:pass
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 bound	nsubj
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 bound	aux
54	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 branch	acl:relcl
55	to	to	ADP	_	58 tree	case
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 tree	det
57	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 tree	amod
58	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 bound	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 blown	punct
60	so	so	ADV	_	64 blown	advmod
61	as	as	SCONJ	_	64 blown	mark
62	to	to	PART	_	64 blown	mark
63	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	64 blown	aux:pass
64	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Hansel	parataxis
65	to	to	ADP	_	64 blown	obl
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 fro	cc
67	fro	fro	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	64 blown	conj
68	by	by	ADP	_	70 wind	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 wind	det
70	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 fro	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hansel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hansel	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	sit down	past	Grethel		by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
3	is a	past	fire	noon		tree rules
4	eat	past	each	the piece of bread		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
5	hear	could	wife	the blows of a axe		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer blow=Stimulus
6	think speech: other	past	wife			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	wife's father		near property	tree rules
8	not is a	past	fire	a axe		tree rules
9	bind	past · perfect · passive		a branch	to a withered tree	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to tree=Co-Patient
10	wither	participle				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
11	blow	to-infinitive · passive				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»
12	fro	participle			by the wind	tree rules
13	blow		a axe			nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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