Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 92
Then Grethel gave her a push, so that she fell right in, and then shutting the iron door she bolted it!
Who acts: Grethel, goose · What happens: give, fall, shut, bolt · To what, where: push, goose, iron door, door
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, goose), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | Grethel | Grethel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 push | det |
| 6 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 fell | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 fell | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 12 | right | right | ADV | _ | 13 in | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 fell | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shutting | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shutting | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 shutting | advmod |
| 17 | shutting | shut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 fell | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 19 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 door | amod |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shutting | obj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bolted | nsubj |
| 22 | bolted | bolt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 shutting | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bolted | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Grethel | a push | goose | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient push=Theme | ||
| 2 | fall | past | goose | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shut | gerund | goose not said here | the iron door | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 4 | bolt | past | goose | door | vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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