Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 74
Then she took up Hansel with her rough hands, and shut him up in a little cage with a lattice-door; and although he screamed loudly it was of no use.
Who acts: witch, Hansel, door · What happens: take up, shut up, scream, be · To what, where: Hansel, little cage · 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 (witch, Hansel, door), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hands | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hands | amod |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shut | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shut | cc |
| 12 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shut | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 shut | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 cage | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cage | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cage | amod |
| 18 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shut | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 door | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 21 | lattice | lattice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 door | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 lattice | punct |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cage | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 screamed | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 screamed | cc |
| 26 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 28 screamed | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 screamed | nsubj |
| 28 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 29 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 28 screamed | advmod |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 use | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 use | cop |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 use | case |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 use | det |
| 34 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 screamed | ccomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | witch | Hansel | then | with witch's rough hands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument hansel=Destination | ||
| 2 | shut up | infinitive | witch not said here | Hansel | a little cage with a lattice door | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 3 | scream speech: express | past | Hansel | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | door | of no use | tree rules |
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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