Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 93
Oh! how horribly she howled; but Grethel ran away, and left the ungodly witch to burn to ashes.
Who acts: goose, Grethel · What happens: howl, run away, leave, burn · To what, where: ungodly witch
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 (goose, Grethel), 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 | _ | 6 howled | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 horribly | advmod |
| 4 | horribly | horribly | ADV | _ | 6 howled | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 howled | nsubj |
| 6 | howled | howl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 9 | Grethel | Grethel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 howled | advcl |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 ran | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 left | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 howled | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 witch | det |
| 16 | ungodly | ungodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 witch | amod |
| 17 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 burn | mark |
| 19 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 left | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 ashes | case |
| 21 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 burn | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 howled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | howl | past | goose | horribly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | run away | past | Grethel | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | goose not said here | the ungodly witch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burn | to-infinitive | goose not said here | to ashes | 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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