Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 119
How they did rejoice and embrace each other, and dance about and kiss each other!
Who acts: Hansel · What happens: rejoice, embrace, dance, kiss · To what, where: each
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 (Hansel), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 rejoice | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rejoice | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rejoice | aux |
| 4 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 embrace | cc |
| 6 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rejoice | conj |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 6 embrace | obj |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dance | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dance | cc |
| 11 | dance | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rejoice | parataxis |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 dance | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 kiss | cc |
| 14 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dance | conj |
| 15 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 14 kiss | obj |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 each | fixed |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 rejoice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past · do-support | Hansel | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | embrace | infinitive | Hansel not said here | each | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | dance | present | about property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kiss | infinitive | each | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent |
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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