Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 130
‘No,’ replied Gretel, ‘that will be too heavy for the little duck; she shall take us across, one after the other.’
Who acts: that, duck · What happens: reply, be, take · To what, where: Gretel, 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 (that, 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heavy | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ‘ | SCONJ | _ | 13 heavy | mark |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 heavy | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 heavy | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 heavy | cop |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 heavy | advmod |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 replied | advcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 duck | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 duck | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 duck | amod |
| 17 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heavy | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 take | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 take | aux |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 take | obj |
| 23 | across | across | ADV | _ | 21 take | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 one | punct |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 take | obj |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 other | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 other | det |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 one | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Gretel | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gretel=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | future | that | for the little duck; heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | shall | duck | us | across property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Theme one=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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