Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 106
Early in the morning, Gretel had to go out and hang up the cauldron with the water, and light the fire.
Who acts: Gretel · What happens: have, go out, hang up, light · To what, where: cauldron, fire
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 (Gretel), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 6 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hang | cc |
| 12 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 hang | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cauldron | det |
| 15 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hang | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cauldron | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 light | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 light | cc |
| 21 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fire | det |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 light | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Gretel | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go out | to-infinitive | Gretel not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hang up | infinitive | Gretel not said here | the cauldron | with the water | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cauldron=Patient with water=Instrument | |||
| 4 | light | infinitive | Gretel not said here | the fire | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
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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