Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 125
‘And there is also no ferry,’ answered Gretel, ‘but a white duck is swimming there: if I ask her, she will help us over.’
Who acts: ferry, white duck, I, duck · What happens: be, answer, swim, ask, help over · To what, where: ferry, Gretel, duck, us
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 (ferry, white duck, I, duck), 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 | _ | 7 ferry | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 is | cc |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ferry | cop |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 is | advmod |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 ferry | det |
| 7 | ferry | ferry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ferry | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 ferry | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 swimming | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 swimming | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 swimming | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 duck | det |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 duck | amod |
| 17 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 swimming | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 swimming | aux |
| 19 | swimming | swim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 answered | advcl |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 swimming | advmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 help | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 ask | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 ask | nsubj |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 help | advcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ask | iobj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ask | punct |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 help | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 help | aux |
| 29 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 answered | parataxis |
| 30 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 help | obj |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 help | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 help | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | no ferry | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | no ferry | Gretel | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent gretel=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | swim | present · progressive | a white duck | there | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | present | I | duck | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | help over | future | duck | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary |
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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