Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 95

So he sprang out, like a bird out of his cage when the door is opened; and they were so glad that they fell upon each other's neck, and kissed each other over and over again.

Who acts: Grethel, birds · What happens: spring out, open, be, fall, kiss · To what, where: door, neck, each

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, birds), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sprang	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sprang	nsubj
3	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 sprang	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bird	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 bird	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprang	obl
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 cage	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 cage	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cage	nmod:poss
12	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	nmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 opened	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 door	det
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 opened	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 opened	aux:pass
17	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cage	acl:relcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 glad	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 glad	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 glad	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 glad	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 glad	advmod
23	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sprang	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 fell	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fell	nsubj
26	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 glad	advcl
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 neck	case
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	29 other	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 neck	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 other	case
31	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fell	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 kissed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 kissed	cc
34	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
35	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	34 kissed	obj
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 each	fixed
37	over	over	ADV	_	34 kissed	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 again	cc
39	over	over	ADV	_	40 again	advmod
40	again	again	ADV	_	37 over	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring out	past	Grethel			like a bird out Grethel's cage	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open	present · passive		the door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	past	birds = bird			glad property	tree rules
4	fall	past	birds = bird		each other's neck		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon neck=Location
5	kiss	past	Grethel not said here	each		over property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-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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