Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 45
On the way, Hansel broke his in his pocket, and, stooping every now and then, dropped a crumb upon the path. "
Who acts: Hansel · What happens: break, stoop, drop · To what, where: pocket, way, every, crumb, path
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), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
| 5 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | nsubj |
| 6 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pocket | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 10 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 broke | obj | ||
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stooping | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stooping | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stooping | punct |
| 14 | stooping | stoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 broke | advcl |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 stooping | obj |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 stooping | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 then | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 now | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dropped | punct |
| 20 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 broke | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 crumb | det |
| 22 | crumb | crumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dropped | obj |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 path | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 path | det |
| 25 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dropped | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | Hansel | Hansel's pocket | the way | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pocket=Patient | |||
| 2 | stoop | gerund | Hansel not said here | every | now | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location every=Theme | |||
| 3 | drop | past | Hansel not said here | a crumb | the path | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme upon path=Destination |
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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