Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 87
First, we will bake, however," said the old woman; "I have already heated the oven and kneaded the dough"; and so saying, she pushed poor Grethel up to the oven, out of which the flames were burning fiercely. "
Who acts: we, old woman, I, woman, flames · What happens: bake, say, heat, knead, push, burn · To what, where: oven, dough, poor Grethel · 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 (we, old woman, I, woman), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 bake | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 First | punct |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bake | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bake | aux |
| 5 | bake | bake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 bake | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bake | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bake | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 heated | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 heated | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 heated | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 heated | aux |
| 18 | already | already | ADV | _ | 19 heated | advmod |
| 19 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 oven | det |
| 21 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heated | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kneaded | cc |
| 23 | kneaded | knead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 heated | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dough | det |
| 25 | dough | dough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kneaded | obj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 dough | punct |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 saying | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 saying | cc |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 saying | advmod |
| 30 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pushed | punct |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 pushed | nsubj |
| 33 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 saying | ccomp |
| 34 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Grethel | amod |
| 35 | Grethel | Grethel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 pushed | obj |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 oven | case |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 oven | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 oven | det |
| 39 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pushed | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 burning | punct |
| 41 | out | out | ADP | _ | 47 burning | mark |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 which | case |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 burning | obl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 flames | det |
| 45 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 burning | nsubj |
| 46 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 burning | aux |
| 47 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 pushed | advcl |
| 48 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 47 burning | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | future | we | first, however property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | heat | present · perfect | I | the oven | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent oven=Patient | ||||
| 4 | knead | past | I not said here | the dough | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent dough=Material | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | gerund | the old woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | push in a quote | past | woman | poor Grethel | the oven | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent grethel=Theme up oven=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | burn in a quote | past · progressive | the flames | fiercely property | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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