Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 31
But Hansel tried to comfort her by saying, "Wait a little while till the moon rises, and then we will quickly find the way."
Who acts: Hansel, moon, we · What happens: try, comfort, say, wait, rise, find · To what, where: branch, way · 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 (Hansel, moon, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 tried | cc |
| 2 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 comfort | mark |
| 5 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 comfort | obj |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 saying | mark |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 comfort | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Wait | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Wait | punct |
| 11 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saying | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 while | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 while | amod |
| 14 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Wait | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 rises | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moon | det |
| 17 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rises | nsubj |
| 18 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Wait | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 find | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 find | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 find | advmod |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 find | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 find | aux |
| 24 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 25 find | advmod |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Wait | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 way | det |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Hansel | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | comfort not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hansel not said here | branch | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Hansel not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | wait in a quote | infinitive | while | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | rise in a quote | present | the moon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | find in a quote | future | we | the way | then | quickly property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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