Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 97
These are better than pebbles," said Hansel, putting as many into his pocket as it would hold; while Grethel thought, "I will take some too," and filled her apron full. "
Who acts: These, Hansel, pocket, Grethel, I · What happens: be, say, put, hold, think, take · To what, where: many, pocket, some, apron · 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 (These, Hansel, pocket, 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 better | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 pebbles | case |
| 5 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 better | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 putting | punct |
| 11 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 many | advmod |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 putting | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 pocket | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 16 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 putting | obl | ||
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 hold | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hold | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 hold | aux |
| 20 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 putting | advcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 thought | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 thought | mark |
| 23 | Grethel | Grethel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 thought | nsubj |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 take | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 take | aux |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 thought | ccomp |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 take | obj |
| 31 | too | too | ADV | _ | 29 take | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 take | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 filled | cc |
| 35 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 thought | conj |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 apron | nmod:poss |
| 37 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 filled | obj |
| 38 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 filled | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | These | than pebbles; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Hansel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | put in a quote | gerund | Hansel not said here | many | Hansel's pocket | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent many=Goal | |||
| 4 | hold in a quote | would | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Grethel | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | take | future | I | some | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fill in a quote | past | Grethel not said here | witch's apron | full property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent apron=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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