Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 63

So Hansel reached up and broke a piece off the roof, in order to see how it tasted, while Grethel stepped up to the window and began to bite it.

Who acts: Hansel, piece, Grethel · What happens: reach up, break, see, taste, step up, begin · To what, where: piece, window · 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 (Hansel, piece, Grethel), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 reached	advmod
2	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 reached	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 broke	cc
6	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reached	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 piece	det
8	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	11 roof	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 roof	det
11	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
13	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 see	mark
14	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 in	fixed
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 broke	parataxis
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 tasted	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tasted	nsubj
19	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 see	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stepped	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 stepped	mark
22	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 stepped	nsubj
23	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reached	parataxis
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 stepped	compound:prt
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 window	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 window	det
27	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stepped	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stepped	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 bite	mark
31	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bite	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach up	past	Hansel				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	break	past	Hansel not said here	a piece		off the roof	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient off roof=Co-Patient
3	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	taste	past	piece				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	step up	past	Grethel		the window		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to window=Destination
6	begin	past	Grethel not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	bite	to-infinitive	Grethel not said here	piece			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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