Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 77
So a nice meal was cooked for Hansel, but Grethel got nothing but a crab's claw.
Who acts: Grethel · What happens: cook, get · To what, where: nice meal, nothing
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 cooked | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 meal | det |
| 3 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 meal | amod |
| 4 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cooked | aux:pass |
| 6 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Hansel | case |
| 8 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cooked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 got | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 got | cc |
| 11 | Grethel | Grethel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 got | nsubj |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cooked | conj |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 got | obj |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 claw | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 crab | det |
| 16 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 claw | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 crab | case |
| 18 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nothing | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cooked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | past · passive | a nice meal | for Hansel | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for hansel=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | get | past | Grethel | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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