Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 115

Oh! then she began to howl quite horribly, but Gretel ran away and the godless witch was miserably burnt to death.

Who acts: woman, Gretel · What happens: begin, howl, run away, burnt · To what, where: godless witch

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, 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 began	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 began	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 howl	mark
7	howl	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 horribly	advmod
9	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	7 howl	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ran	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 ran	cc
12	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 ran	nsubj
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	advcl
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 ran	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 burnt	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 witch	det
17	godless	godless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 witch	amod
18	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 burnt	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 burnt	aux:pass
20	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	21 burnt	advmod
21	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 ran	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 death	case
23	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 burnt	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	woman		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	howl	to-infinitive	woman not said here			horribly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run away	past	Gretel			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	burnt	past · passive		the godless witch		to death; miserably property	tree rules

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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