Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 79

But Hansel used to stretch out a bone, and the old woman, having very bad sight, thought it was his finger, and wondered very much that he did not get fatter.

Who acts: you, sight, Grethel · What happens: hansel, use, stretch out, have, think, be · To what, where: bone, bad sight, 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 (you, sight, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 Hansel	cc
2	Hansel	hansel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Hansel	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stretch	mark
5	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 used	advcl
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 stretch	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bone	det
8	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stretch	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 woman	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 woman	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hansel	vocative
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 having	punct
15	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Hansel	advcl
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 bad	advmod
17	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sight	amod
18	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 having	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Hansel	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 finger	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 finger	cop
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 finger	nmod:poss
24	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thought	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wondered	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wondered	cc
27	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 thought	parataxis
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADV	_	27 wondered	advmod
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 get	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 get	nsubj
32	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 get	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 get	advmod
34	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wondered	advcl
35	fatter	fat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 get	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Hansel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hansel	imperative	you not said here		the old woman vocative	tree rules
2	use	participle	you not said here			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stretch out	to-infinitive	you not said here	a bone		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
4	have	gerund	you not said here	bad sight		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Patient
5	think speech: other	past	you not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	sight	Grethel's finger		tree rules
7	wonder speech: ask	past				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	not get	past · do-support	Grethel		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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