Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 82

Oh, how the poor little sister grieved, as she was forced to fetch the water, and fast the tears ran down her cheeks! "

Who acts: poor little sister, sister, tears · What happens: grieve, force, fetch, fast, run down · To what, where: sister, water, cheeks

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 (poor little sister, sister, tears), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	8 grieved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grieved	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 grieved	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sister	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sister	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sister	amod
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grieved	nsubj
8	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 forced	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 forced	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 forced	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 forced	aux:pass
13	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 grieved	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 fetch	mark
15	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 forced	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 water	det
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fetch	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fast	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fast	cc
20	fast	fast	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grieved	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tears	det
22	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ran	nsubj
23	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fast	ccomp
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 ran	compound:prt
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 cheeks	nmod:poss
26	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ran	obj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 grieved	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	grieve	participle	the poor little sister		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	force	past · passive		sister	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	fetch	to-infinitive	sister not said here	the water	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
4	fast	past	the poor little sister not said here		tree rules
5	run down	past	the tears	sister's cheeks	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cheek=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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