Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 66
Just then the door opened, and a very old woman, walking upon crutches, came out.
Who acts: door · What happens: open, walk, come out · To what, where: old woman, crutches
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 (door), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 opened | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 opened | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 woman | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 woman | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 old | advmod |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walking | punct |
| 13 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 opened | advcl |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 crutches | case |
| 15 | crutches | crutch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 walking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opened | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the door | a old woman | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk | gerund | the door not said here | crutches | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon crutch=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | come out | past | the door not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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