Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 78

Every morning the old witch came to the cage and said, "Hansel, stretch out your finger that I may feel whether you are getting fat."

Who acts: old witch, you · What happens: come, say, hansel out, stretch out, feel, get · To what, where: cage, finger · 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 (old witch, you), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 witch	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 witch	amod
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 cage	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cage	det
9	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Hansel	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Hansel	punct
14	Hansel	hansel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stretch	punct
16	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 Hansel	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	14 Hansel	compound:prt
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 finger	nmod:poss
19	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Hansel	obj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 feel	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 feel	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 feel	aux
23	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 Hansel	advcl
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	27 getting	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 getting	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 getting	aux
27	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 feel	advcl
28	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 getting	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 Hansel	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 Hansel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the old witch		the cage	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cage=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the old witch not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hansel out in a quote	infinitive		your finger				tree rules
4	stretch out in a quote	infinitive						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	feel in a quote	may	the old witch = witch					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	get in a quote	present · progressive	you				fat property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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