Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 47
I am looking at my little dove," answered Hansel, "nodding a good-bye to me." "
Who acts: I, looking Hansel · What happens: look, be, nod · To what, where: looking Hansel
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 (I, looking 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 looking | aux |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 Hansel | amod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 dove | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dove | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dove | amod |
| 7 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 looking | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 looking | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Hansel | cop |
| 11 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hansel | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 nodding | punct |
| 14 | nodding | nod | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 Hansel | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bye | det |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bye | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 18 | bye | bye | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nodding | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 bye | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 nodding | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 nodding | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 nodding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · progressive | I | at my little dove | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dove=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | looking Hansel | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | nod | gerund | looking Hansel not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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