Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 46
Hansel, why do you stop and look about?" said the father; "keep in the path." "
Who acts: you, father · What happens: hansel, stop, look, say, keep · To what, where: path · 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 (you, father), 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 | Hansel | hansel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stop | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 stop | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stop | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 stop | nsubj |
| 6 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Hansel | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 look | cc |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 stop | conj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 look | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hansel | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hansel | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hansel | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 father | det |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 keep | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 keep | punct |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hansel | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 path | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 path | det |
| 20 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hansel | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hansel | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hansel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hansel | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stop | present · do-support | you | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | the path | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in path=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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