Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 71

Witches have red eyes, and cannot see very far; but they have a fine sense of smelling, like wild beasts, so that they know when children approach them.

Who acts: Witches, eyes, fine sense, children · What happens: have, not see, smell, know, approach · To what, where: red eyes, fine sense, wild beasts, eyes · 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 (Witches, eyes, fine sense, children), 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	Witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eyes	amod
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 see	cc
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 see	advmod
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	conj
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 far	advmod
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 see	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sense	det
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sense	amod
18	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	20 smelling	mark
20	smelling	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 sense	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 beasts	punct
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 beasts	case
23	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 beasts	amod
24	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 smelling	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
26	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 know	mark
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 so	fixed
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 know	nsubj
29	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 have	parataxis
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 approach	advmod
31	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 approach	nsubj
32	approach	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 know	ccomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 approach	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Witches	red eyes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	not see	can	Witches not said here		far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	have	present	eyes = eye	a fine sense		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
4	smell	gerund	a fine sense not said here	wild beasts		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus
5	know	present	eyes = eye			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	approach	present	children	eyes = eye		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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