Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 33
All night long they walked on, and as day broke they came to their father's house.
Who acts: pebbles · What happens: walk on, break, come · To what, where: house
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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 walked | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 walked | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 broke | mark |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | advcl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walked | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 father | case |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk on | past | pebbles = pebble | night | long property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | break | past | pebbles = pebble not said here | day | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | past | pebbles = pebble | pebbles's father's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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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