Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 52
When noon came Grethel shared her bread with Hansel, who had strewn his on the path.
Who acts: noon, Grethel, Hansel · What happens: come, share, strewn · To what, where: bread, 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 (noon, Grethel, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shared | advcl |
| 4 | Grethel | Grethel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 shared | nsubj |
| 5 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bread | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shared | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Hansel | case |
| 9 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 shared | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 strewn | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 strewn | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 strewn | aux |
| 13 | strewn | strewn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 Hansel | acl:relcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 path | nmod:poss |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 path | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 path | det |
| 17 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strewn | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | noon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | share | past | Grethel | mother's bread | with Hansel | tree rules | |||
| 3 | strewn | past · perfect | Hansel | Grethel's path | tree rules |
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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