Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 76

Grethel began to cry, but it was all useless, for the old witch made her do as she wished.

Who acts: Grethel, water, old witch, B, witch · What happens: begin, cry, be, make, do, wish · To what, where: B

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, water, old witch, B), 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 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cry	mark
4	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 useless	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 useless	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 useless	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 useless	cop
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 useless	advmod
10	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 began	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 made	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 made	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 witch	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 witch	amod
15	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	nsubj
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 useless	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 made	obj
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 made	xcomp
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 wished	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wished	nsubj
21	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 do	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Grethel			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Grethel not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	water		all, useless property	tree rules
4	make	past	the old witch	B		tree rules
5	do	infinitive	B not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wish	past	witch			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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