Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 124
‘We cannot cross,’ said Hansel, ‘I see no foot-plank, and no bridge.’
Who acts: We, Hansel, I · What happens: not cross, say, see · To what, where: foot plank · 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 (We, Hansel, I), 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 cross | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 cross | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cross | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 cross | advmod |
| 5 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cross | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cross | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 see | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 see | nsubj |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 plank | det |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plank | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 foot | punct |
| 17 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bridge | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bridge | cc |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 bridge | det |
| 21 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cross | can | We | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hansel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | present | I | no foot plank | no bridge obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plank=Stimulus |
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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