Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 114
Then Gretel gave her a push that drove her far into it, and shut the iron door, and fastened the bolt.
Who acts: Gretel, push · What happens: give, drive, shut, fasten · To what, where: push, woman, iron door, bolt
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, push), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 push | det |
| 6 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 drove | nsubj |
| 8 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 push | acl:relcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drove | obj |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 drove | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 far | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shut | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shut | cc |
| 15 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 17 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 door | amod |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shut | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fastened | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fastened | cc |
| 21 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bolt | det |
| 23 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fastened | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Gretel | a push | woman | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient push=Theme | ||
| 2 | drive | past | a push | woman | far property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | shut | past | Gretel not said here | the iron door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fasten | past | Gretel not said here | the bolt | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=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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