Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 103
‘Dear God, do help us,’ she cried.
Who acts: Dear God, sister · What happens: help, cry · To what, where: us
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 (Dear God, sister), 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 help | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 God | amod |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 help | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 help | aux |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 help | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present · do-support | Dear God | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | sister | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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