Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 101
Let Hansel be fat or lean, tomorrow I will kill him, and cook him.’
Who acts: you, Hansel, tomorrow · What happens: let, be, kill, cook · To what, where: Hansel, Gretel
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 (you, Hansel, tomorrow), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fat | cop |
| 4 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 lean | cc |
| 6 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fat | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kill | punct |
| 8 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kill | nsubj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 kill | aux |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cook | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cook | cc |
| 15 | cook | cook | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cook | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | Hansel | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hansel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | Hansel not said here | fat property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Hansel not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | kill | future | tomorrow | Gretel | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cook | infinitive | you not said here | Gretel | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=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: «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/101/