Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 121

‘These are far better than pebbles!’ said Hansel, and thrust into his pockets whatever could be got in, and Gretel said: ‘I, too, will take something home with me,’ and filled her pinafore full.

Who acts: These, Hansel, Gretel · What happens: be, say, get in, take, fill · To what, where: whatever, something, pinafore · 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 (These, Hansel, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct
2	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 better	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 better	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 said	ccomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 pebbles	case
7	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 better	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thrust	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 thrust	cc
14	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 pockets	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 pockets	nmod:poss
17	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thrust	nmod
18	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 got	obj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 got	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 got	aux:pass
21	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 thrust	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADV	_	21 got	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
25	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 I	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 I	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 said	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 I	punct
31	too	too	ADV	_	26 said	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 take	punct
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 take	aux
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
35	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 take	obj
36	home	home	ADV	_	34 take	advmod
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 me	case
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 take	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 take	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 take	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 filled	cc
42	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 said	conj
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 pinafore	nmod:poss
44	pinafore	pinafore	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 filled	obj
45	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 filled	xcomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	These		than pebbles; far, good property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Hansel			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	get in	could · passive		whatever		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: whatever=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	Gretel			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take	future		something	with me; home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
6	fill	past	Gretel not said here	witch's pinafore	full property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pinafore=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/121/