Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 128
There’s never a plank, or bridge in sight, Take us across on thy back so white.’
What happens: take · To what, where: us, back
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: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 ’s | expl |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 plank | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plank | det |
| 5 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ’s | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bridge | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 bridge | cc |
| 8 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ’s | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bridge | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Take | punct |
| 12 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 ’s | conj |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Take | obj |
| 14 | across | across | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 16 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 back | nmod:poss |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Take | obl |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 white | advmod |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Take | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’s | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | us | thy back | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination |
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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