Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 123
When they had walked for two hours, they came to a great stretch of water.
Who acts: Hansel · What happens: walk, come · To what, where: great stretch
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 walked | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | aux |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 came | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 hours | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hours | nummod |
| 7 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 stretch | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stretch | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stretch | amod |
| 14 | stretch | stretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stretch | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · perfect | Hansel | hour | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Hansel | a great stretch of water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stretch=Initial_Location |
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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