Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 110

And once Gretel was inside, she intended to shut the oven and let her bake in it, and then she would eat her, too.

Who acts: Gretel, witch · What happens: be, intend, shut, let, bake, eat · To what, where: oven, witch, woman

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, witch), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 intended	cc
2	once	once	SCONJ	_	4 was	mark
3	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 intended	advcl
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 was	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 was	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 intended	nsubj
8	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 shut	mark
10	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 intended	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 oven	det
12	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shut	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
14	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 shut	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bake	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eat	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 eat	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 eat	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 eat	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 eat	aux
24	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 intended	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 eat	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 too	punct
27	too	too	ADV	_	24 eat	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 intended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	Gretel			inside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	intend	past	witch				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	shut not said to happen	to-infinitive	witch not said here	the oven			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent oven=Patient
4	let	infinitive	witch not said here	witch			tree rules
5	bake	infinitive	witch not said here			in oven	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in it=Instrument
6	eat	would	witch	woman	then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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.

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