Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 100

‘Now, then, Gretel,’ she cried to the girl, ‘stir yourself, and bring some water.

Who acts: woman · What happens: cry, stir, bring · To what, where: Gretel, girl, yourself, water

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: who acts (woman), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 Gretel	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 Gretel	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 Gretel	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Gretel	punct
6	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
8	’	'	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Gretel	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 girl	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stir	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 stir	punct
16	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	conj
17	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 stir	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bring	cc
20	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 stir	conj
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bring	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Gretel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	woman	Gretel not said here	the girl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gretel=Topic to girl=Recipient
2	stir	infinitive	woman not said here	yourself		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer
3	bring	infinitive	woman not said here	some water		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=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: «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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