Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 49

But Hansel still kept dropping crumbs as he went along.

Who acts: Hansel · What happens: keep, drop, go along · To what, where: crumbs

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 kept	cc
2	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kept	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dropping	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dropping	obj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dropping	advcl
10	along	along	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Hansel		still		tree rules
2	drop	gerund	Hansel not said here	crumbs			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme
3	go along	past	Hansel			along property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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