Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 80

When four weeks had passed, and Hansel still kept quite lean, she lost all her patience, and would not wait any longer. "

Who acts: Hansel, witch · What happens: pass, keep, lose, not wait · To what, where: four weeks, patience

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 (Hansel, witch), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 passed	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 weeks	nummod
3	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 passed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	aux
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 wait	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kept	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 kept	cc
8	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 kept	nsubj
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 kept	advmod
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	parataxis
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 lean	advmod
12	lean	lean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kept	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lost	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lost	nsubj
15	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 kept	conj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 patience	det:predet
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 patience	nmod:poss
18	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lost	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wait	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wait	cc
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 wait	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 wait	advmod
23	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	any	any	ADV	_	25 longer	advmod
25	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 wait	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 wait	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect · passive		four weeks			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	keep	past	Hansel		still	lean property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lose	past	witch	witch's patience			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality
4	not wait	would				long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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