Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 89
Grethel perceived what her thoughts were, and said, "I do not know how to do it; how shall I get in?" "
Who acts: Grethel, woman · What happens: perceive, say, not know, do, get in, think · To what, where: oven · 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 (Grethel, 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 | Grethel | Grethel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 perceived | nsubj |
| 2 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 perceived | obj |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 5 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 were | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 perceived | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 do | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 know | ccomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 do | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 get | advmod |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | aux |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 get | nsubj |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 perceived | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADV | _ | 24 get | advmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | Grethel | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Grethel not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | Grethel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | oven | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | get in in a quote | shall | Grethel | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | think | woman | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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