Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 72
When Hansel and Grethel came near the witch's house she laughed wickedly, saying, "Here come two who shall not escape me."
Who acts: Hansel, witch, two · What happens: come, laugh, say, not escape · To what, where: house, witch · 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 (Hansel, witch, two), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Grethel | cc |
| 4 | Grethel | Grethel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Hansel | conj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 laughed | advcl |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 witch | det |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 witch | case |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 laughed | nsubj |
| 12 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | wickedly | wickedly | ADV | _ | 12 laughed | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saying | punct |
| 15 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 laughed | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 18 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 come | advmod |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 saying | ccomp |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 escape | nsubj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 escape | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 escape | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 escape | advmod |
| 24 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 come | ccomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 escape | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Hansel and Grethel | the witch's house | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near house=Location | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | witch | wickedly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | witch not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not escape in a quote | shall | two | witch | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Initial_Location |
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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