Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 32

The moon soon shone forth, and Hansel, taking his sister's hand, followed the pebbles, which glittered like new-coined silver pieces, and showed them the path.

Who acts: pebbles · What happens: shine, take, follow, glitter, coin, show · To what, where: moon, hand, pebbles

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 (pebbles), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shone	nsubj:pass
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 shone	advmod
4	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	forth	forth	ADV	_	4 shone	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Hansel	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Hansel	cc
8	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shone	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 taking	punct
10	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 shone	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hand	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 sister	case
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taking	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 followed	punct
16	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 taking	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pebbles	det
18	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 followed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 glittered	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 glittered	nsubj
21	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 pebbles	acl:relcl
22	like	like	ADP	_	27 pieces	case
23	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 coined	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 new	punct
25	coined	coin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 pieces	amod
26	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pieces	compound
27	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 glittered	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 showed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 showed	cc
30	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 glittered	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 showed	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 path	det
33	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 showed	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shine	participle · passive		the moon	Hansel obl; forth, soon property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	take	gerund		Hansel's sister's hand		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	follow	past		the pebbles		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme
4	glitter	past	the pebbles		like coined silver pieces	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	coin	participle				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	show	past	the pebbles not said here	pebbles = pebble		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient path=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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