Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 129

The duck came to them, and Hansel seated himself on its back, and told his sister to sit by him.

Who acts: duck, Hansel · What happens: come, seat, tell, sit · To what, where: planks, Gretel, back, sister · 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 (duck, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seated	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 seated	cc
8	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 seated	nsubj
9	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 seated	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 back	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 back	nmod:poss
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seated	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sister	nmod:poss
18	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 sit	mark
20	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	xcomp
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sit	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the duck		planks = plank			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
2	seat	past	Hansel	Gretel		back's back		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
3	tell speech: assert	past	the duck not said here		Gretel's sister			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic
4	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	the duck not said here				by Gretel	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=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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