Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 65

Hansel thought the roof tasted very nice, so he tore off a great piece; while Grethel broke a large round pane out of the window, and sat down quite contentedly.

Who acts: Hansel, roof, Grethel · What happens: think, taste, tore off, break, sit down · To what, where: great piece, large round pane, 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, roof, 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	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roof	det
4	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tasted	nsubj
5	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 nice	advmod
7	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tasted	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tore	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 tore	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tore	nsubj
11	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 tore	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 piece	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 piece	amod
15	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tore	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 broke	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 broke	mark
18	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 broke	nsubj
19	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pane	det
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pane	amod
22	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pane	amod
23	pane	pane	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 broke	obj
24	out	out	ADP	_	27 window	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 window	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 window	det
27	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 broke	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sat	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sat	cc
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 sat	advmod
32	quite	quite	ADV	_	33 contentedly	advmod
33	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	_	30 sat	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Hansel				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	taste	past	the roof			nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	tore off	past	Hansel	a great piece			tree rules
4	break	past	Grethel	a large round pane	the window		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pane=Patient
5	sit down	past				contentedly, down property	vn assuming_position-50 «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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