Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 75
Grethel came next, and, shaking her till she awoke, the witch said, "Get up, you lazy thing, and fetch some water to cook something good for your brother, who must remain in that stall and get fat; when he is fat enough I shall eat him."
Who acts: Grethel, witch, you, brother · What happens: come, shake, awake, say, get up, thing · To what, where: witch, water, something, stall, Grethel · 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 (Grethel, witch, you, brother), 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 | Grethel | Grethel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | next | next | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 awoke | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 awoke | cc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shaking | punct |
| 7 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 awoke | advcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shaking | obj |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 awoke | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 awoke | nsubj |
| 11 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 witch | det |
| 14 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Get | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Get | punct |
| 18 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 Get | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thing | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 thing | nsubj |
| 22 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 thing | amod |
| 23 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Get | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fetch | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fetch | cc |
| 26 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 water | det |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fetch | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 cook | mark |
| 30 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 fetch | advcl |
| 31 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 30 cook | obj |
| 32 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 something | amod |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 brother | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 brother | nmod:poss |
| 35 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cook | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 remain | punct |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 remain | nsubj |
| 38 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 remain | aux |
| 39 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 brother | acl:relcl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 stall | case |
| 41 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 stall | det |
| 42 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 remain | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 get | cc |
| 44 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 remain | conj |
| 45 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 get | xcomp |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 fat | punct |
| 47 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 50 fat | advmod |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 fat | nsubj |
| 49 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 fat | cop |
| 50 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fetch | conj |
| 51 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 50 fat | advmod |
| 52 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 54 eat | nsubj |
| 53 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 54 eat | aux |
| 54 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 fat | parataxis |
| 55 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 eat | obj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Grethel | next property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shake | gerund | witch not said here | witch | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | awake | past | witch | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | get up in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | thing in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | fetch in a quote | present | some water | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||||
| 8 | cook in a quote | to-infinitive | something | for your brother | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent something=Material for brother=Beneficiary | ||||
| 9 | remain in a quote | must | your brother | that stall | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stall=Location | ||||
| 10 | get in a quote | infinitive | your brother not said here | fat property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 11 | is in a quote | present | Grethel | enough, fat property | tree rules | ||||
| 12 | eat in a quote | shall | the witch = witch | Grethel | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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