Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 67

Hansel and Grethel were so frightened that they let fall what they had in their hands; but the old woman, nodding her head, said, "Ah, you dear children, what has brought you here?

Who acts: you, Grethel, crutches, old woman · What happens: hansel, be, let, fall, have, nod · To what, where: hands, head, dear children · 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 (you, Grethel, crutches, old woman), 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	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 frightened	cc
3	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 frightened	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 frightened	advmod
6	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hansel	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 let	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	nsubj
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	advcl
10	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 fall	obj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 what	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hands	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 nodding	punct
23	nodding	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 woman	acl
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 nodding	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 woman	punct
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hansel	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 brought	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 brought	punct
30	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	34 children	discourse
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Ah	punct
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 children	nsubj
33	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 children	amod
34	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 brought	nsubj:pass
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 brought	punct
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 brought	nsubj:pass
37	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 brought	aux
38	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 said	ccomp
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 brought	obj
40	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 brought	advmod
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hansel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hansel	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	is	past	Grethel			frightened property	tree rules
3	let	past	crutches = crutch				tree rules
4	fall	infinitive	crutches = crutch not said here				vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient what=Result
5	have	past	crutches = crutch		crutches's hands		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	nod	gerund	the old woman not said here	woman's head			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
7	say speech: ask	past	the old woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	child in a quote		you				tree rules
9	bring in a quote	present · perfect · passive		dear children	here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination you=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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