Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 120

And as they had no longer any need to fear her, they went into the witch’s house, and in every corner there stood chests full of pearls and jewels.

Who acts: Hansel · What happens: have, fear, go, stand · To what, where: need, witch, house, chests, corner

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	advcl
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 longer	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 had	advmod
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 need	det
8	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fear	mark
10	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 need	acl
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fear	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	into	into	ADP	_	19 house	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 witch	det
17	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 house	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 witch	case
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stood	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stood	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 corner	case
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 corner	det
24	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stood	obl
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 stood	advmod
26	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
27	chests	chest	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stood	obj
28	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 chests	amod
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 pearls	case
30	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 full	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 jewels	cc
32	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 pearls	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Hansel	any need		long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
2	fear	to-infinitive	Hansel not said here	witch			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	go	past	Hansel		the witch's house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
4	stand	past	Hansel not said here	chests	every corner; there		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chest=Theme in corner=Destination

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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