Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 12

Gretel wept bitter tears, and said to Hansel: ‘Now all is over with us.’

Who acts: Gretel, all · What happens: weep, say, hansel, be · To what, where: bitter tears · 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, all), 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	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tears	amod
4	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wept	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 Hansel	mark
9	Hansel	hansel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	xcomp
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Hansel	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 over	punct
12	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 over	advmod
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 over	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 over	cop
15	over	over	ADV	_	9 Hansel	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 us	case
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 over	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wept	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	Gretel	bitter tears			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Gretel not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hansel	to-infinitive	Gretel not said here				tree rules
4	is	present	all		now	with us; over 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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