Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 69
A good meal of milk and pancakes, with sugar, apples, and nuts, was spread on the table, and in the back room were two nice little beds, covered with white, where Hansel and Grethel laid themselves down, and thought themselves in heaven.
Who acts: Hansel · What happens: spread, cover, lay down, think · To what, where: good meal, table, two nice little beds, meal, heaven
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), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 meal | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 meal | amod |
| 3 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 milk | case |
| 5 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meal | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pancakes | cc |
| 7 | pancakes | pancake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 milk | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sugar | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 sugar | case |
| 10 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meal | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 apples | punct |
| 12 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 meal | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nuts | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 nuts | cc |
| 15 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 meal | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meal | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 spread | aux:pass |
| 18 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 table | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 table | det |
| 21 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spread | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 covered | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 covered | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 room | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 room | det |
| 26 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 room | compound |
| 27 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 covered | obl |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 covered | aux:pass |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 beds | nummod |
| 30 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 beds | amod |
| 31 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 beds | amod |
| 32 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 covered | punct |
| 34 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 spread | parataxis |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 white | case |
| 36 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 covered | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 laid | punct |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 laid | advmod |
| 39 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 laid | nsubj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 Grethel | cc |
| 41 | Grethel | Grethel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Hansel | conj |
| 42 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 covered | conj |
| 43 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 42 laid | obj |
| 44 | down | down | ADP | _ | 42 laid | compound:prt |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 thought | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 thought | cc |
| 47 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 spread | advcl |
| 48 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 47 thought | obj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 heaven | case |
| 50 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 thought | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past · passive | a good meal of milk and pancakes and sugar and apples and nuts | the table | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on table=Destination | ||||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | two nice little beds | with white; in the back room | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in room=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay down | past | Hansel and Grethel | meal | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Result | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | meal | heaven | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=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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