Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 86
So early in the morning Grethel was forced to go out and fill the kettle, and make a fire. "
Who acts: morning · What happens: force, go out, fill, make · To what, where: morning, kettle, fire
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 (morning), 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 | _ | 8 forced | advmod |
| 2 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 morning | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 morning | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 morning | det |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | Grethel | Grethel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 morning | appos |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 forced | aux:pass |
| 8 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 forced | xcomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fill | cc |
| 13 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kettle | det |
| 15 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fill | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 make | cc |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fire | det |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 forced | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past · passive | the morning | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go out | to-infinitive | the morning not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fill | infinitive | the morning not said here | the kettle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | the morning not said here | a fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product |
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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