Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 13
‘Be quiet, Gretel,’ said Hansel, ‘do not distress yourself, I will soon find a way to help us.’
Who acts: Hansel, I · What happens: be, say, not distress, find, help · To what, where: yourself, way, us · 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 (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 | _ | 3 quiet | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 quiet | cop |
| 3 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Gretel | punct |
| 5 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 quiet | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 quiet | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 quiet | 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 | _ | 14 distress | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 distress | punct |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 distress | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 distress | advmod |
| 14 | distress | distress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 distress | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 find | advmod |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 distress | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 help | mark |
| 24 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 way | acl |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 help | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 distress | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 distress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | Gretel obl; quiet property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hansel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not distress | infinitive · do-support | yourself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | find | future | I | a way | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | I not said here | a way not said here | 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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