Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 108
She pushed poor Gretel out to the oven, from which flames of fire were already darting.
Who acts: woman, flames, fire · What happens: push out, dart, flame · To what, where: poor Gretel, oven
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, flames, fire), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pushed | nsubj |
| 2 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Gretel | amod |
| 4 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pushed | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 pushed | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 oven | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 oven | det |
| 8 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pushed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 darting | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 darting | obl |
| 12 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 darting | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fire | case |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flames | nmod |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 darting | aux |
| 16 | already | already | ADV | _ | 17 darting | advmod |
| 17 | darting | dart | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 pushed | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push out | past | woman | poor Gretel | the oven | out property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent gretel=Theme to oven=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | dart | past · progressive | flames of fire | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from which=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | flame | fire | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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