Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 1
Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children.
What happens: dwell · To what, where: poor wood cutter
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 dwelt | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 forest | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 forest | amod |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dwelt | obl |
| 6 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cutter | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cutter | amod |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cutter | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 wood | punct |
| 11 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dwelt | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 wife | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cutter | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 children | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 children | nmod:poss |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 children | nummod |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wife | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | a poor wood cutter | by a great forest; with his wife and his two children; hard property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme cutter=Location |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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