Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 39
But her husband felt heavy at heart, and thought, "It were better to share the last crust with the children."
Who acts: husband · What happens: feel, think, be, share · To what, where: heart, last crust · 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 (husband), 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 | _ | 4 felt | cc |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 husband | nmod:poss |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 better | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 better | punct |
| 13 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 better | expl |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 better | cop |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 share | mark |
| 17 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 better | csubj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 crust | det |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 crust | amod |
| 20 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 share | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 children | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 children | det |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 share | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | only's husband | heart | heavy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | only's husband not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | share in a quote | to-infinitive | the last crust | with the children | tree rules |
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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