Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 70

The old woman behaved very kindly to them, but in reality she was a wicked witch who waylaid children, and built the bread-house in order to entice them in, but as soon as they were in her power she killed them, cooked and ate them, and made a great festival of the day.

Who acts: woman, wicked witch, meal · What happens: behave, be, waylay, build, entice, kill · To what, where: old woman, meal, wicked witch, reality, children, bread house

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 (woman, wicked witch, meal), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	behaved	behave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 woman	acl
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 kindly	advmod
6	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	4 behaved	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 behaved	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 witch	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 witch	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 reality	case
12	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 witch	obl
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 witch	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 witch	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 witch	det
16	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 witch	amod
17	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 woman	conj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 waylaid	nsubj
19	waylaid	waylay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 witch	acl:relcl
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 waylaid	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 built	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 built	cc
23	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 waylaid	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 house	det
25	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 house	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 bread	punct
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 built	obj
28	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	31 entice	mark
29	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 in	fixed
30	to	to	PART	_	31 entice	mark
31	entice	entice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 house	acl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 entice	obj
33	in	in	ADV	_	31 entice	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 cooked	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 cooked	cc
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 soon	advmod
37	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	48 cooked	advmod
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 power	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 power	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 power	cop
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 power	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 power	nmod:poss
43	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 cooked	advcl
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 killed	nsubj
45	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 power	acl:relcl
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 killed	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 power	punct
48	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 waylaid	parataxis
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 ate	cc
50	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 cooked	conj
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 ate	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 made	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 made	cc
54	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 waylaid	conj
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 festival	det
56	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 festival	amod
57	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 made	obj
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 day	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 day	det
60	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 festival	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 woman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	behave	participle		the old woman but a wicked witch not said here	meal		kindly property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	woman	a wicked witch		reality		tree rules
3	waylay	past	a wicked witch	children				tree rules
4	build	past	a wicked witch not said here	the bread house				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product
5	entice	to-infinitive	a wicked witch not said here	children = child				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
6	is	past	meal			woman's power		tree rules
7	kill	past	woman	meal				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	cook	past					soon property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	eat	past		meal				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
10	make	past	a wicked witch not said here	a great festival of the day				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset festival=Product

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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