Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 127
‘Little duck, little duck, dost thou see, Hansel and Gretel are waiting for thee?
Who acts: Little duck · What happens: do, see, hansel, wait · To what, where: thou
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 (Little 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 | _ | 3 duck | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 duck | amod |
| 3 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waiting | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 duck | punct |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 duck | amod |
| 6 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 duck | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dost | punct |
| 8 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 duck | conj |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 dost | obj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 dost | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Hansel | punct |
| 12 | Hansel | hansel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 see | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Gretel | cc |
| 14 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 duck | conj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 waiting | aux |
| 16 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 thee | case |
| 18 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 waiting | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Little duck and little duck and Gretel not said here | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | Little duck and little duck and Gretel not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hansel | infinitive | Little duck and little duck and Gretel not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wait | present · progressive | Little duck and little duck and Gretel | for thee | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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