Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 102

Ah, how the poor little sister did lament when she had to fetch the water, and how her tears did flow down her cheeks!

Who acts: sister, tears · What happens: have, fetch, flow down · To what, where: water, cheeks

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 (sister, tears), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	8 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 did	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sister	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sister	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sister	amod
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 flow	aux
9	lament	lament	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obj
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 had	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 did	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 fetch	mark
14	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fetch	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flow	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 flow	cc
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 flow	advmod
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 tears	nmod:poss
21	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flow	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 flow	aux
23	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 flow	compound:prt
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 cheeks	nmod:poss
26	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flow	obj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 flow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	sister		tree rules
2	fetch	to-infinitive	sister not said here	the water	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	flow down	past · do-support	sister's tears	sister's cheeks	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cheek=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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