Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 116
Gretel, however, ran like lightning to Hansel, opened his little stable, and cried: ‘Hansel, we are saved!
Who acts: Gretel · What happens: run, hansel, open, cry, save · To what, where: little stable, Hansel, we
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), 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 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gretel | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 lightning | case |
| 7 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 Hansel | mark |
| 9 | Hansel | hansel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ran | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 opened | punct |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 stable | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stable | amod |
| 14 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opened | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cried | cc |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hansel | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hansel | punct |
| 20 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 cried | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saved | punct |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 saved | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 saved | aux:pass |
| 24 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Hansel | acl:relcl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Gretel | like lightning; however property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hansel | to-infinitive | Gretel not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | open | past | Gretel not said here | Gretel's little stable | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stable=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | Gretel not said here | Hansel | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | save | present · passive | we | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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