Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 44

Early in the morning the stepmother came and pulled them out of bed, and gave them each a slice of bread, which was still smaller than the former piece.

Who acts: stepmother, bread · What happens: come, pull, give, be, slice · To what, where: pebbles, bed, slice, bread

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 (stepmother, bread), 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	Early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 came	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 morning	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stepmother	det
6	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pulled	cc
9	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pulled	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	13 bed	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 bed	case
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pulled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gave	cc
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	iobj
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 slice	det
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 slice	det
20	slice	slice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 bread	case
22	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 slice	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 smaller	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 smaller	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 smaller	cop
26	still	still	ADV	_	27 smaller	advmod
27	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 bread	amod
28	than	than	ADP	_	31 piece	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 piece	det
30	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 piece	amod
31	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 smaller	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the stepmother				morning	early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull	past	the stepmother not said here	pebbles = pebble		bed			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme out bed=Initial_Location
3	give	past	the stepmother not said here	each slice of bread	pebbles = pebble				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient slice=Theme
4	is	past	bread				still	than the former piece; small property	tree rules
5	slice			bread					nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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