Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 94
Now she ran to Hansel, and, opening his door, called out, "Hansel, we are saved; the old witch is dead!"
Who acts: goose, old witch · What happens: run, hansel, open, call out, save, be · To what, where: door, Hansel, we · 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 (goose, old witch), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 Hansel | mark |
| 5 | Hansel | hansel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ran | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 opening | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 opening | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 opening | punct |
| 9 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ran | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 door | nmod:poss |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opening | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 opening | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 called | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hansel | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hansel | punct |
| 17 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saved | punct |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 saved | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 saved | aux:pass |
| 21 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ran | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 dead | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 witch | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 witch | amod |
| 25 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dead | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 dead | cop |
| 27 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 27 dead | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | goose | now | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hansel | to-infinitive | goose not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | open | gerund | goose not said here | Grethel's door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call out speech: express | participle | Hansel | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | save in a quote | present · passive | we | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | the old witch | dead property | tree rules |
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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