Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 111

But Gretel saw what she had in mind, and said: ‘I do not know how I am to do it; how do I get in?’

Who acts: Gretel, witch, I · What happens: see, have, say, not know, do, get in · To what, where: mind · Speech: someone speaks here

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, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 saw	cc
2	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 saw	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 mind	case
8	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 am	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 am	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 know	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 am	xcomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 get	punct
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 get	advmod
26	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 get	aux
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 get	nsubj
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 know	parataxis
29	in	in	ADV	_	28 get	advmod
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	see	past	Gretel			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	have	past	witch		mind	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Gretel not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not know	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	do	to-infinitive	I not said here	mind		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	get in	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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