Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 131

The good little duck did so, and when they were once safely across and had walked for a short time, the forest seemed to be more and more familiar to them, and at length they saw from afar their father’s house.

Who acts: good little duck, Hansel, forest · What happens: do, be, walk, seem, see · To what, where: length, Hansel, afar house

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 (good little duck, Hansel, forest), 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	4 duck	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 duck	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 duck	amod
4	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 across	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 across	cc
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 across	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 across	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 across	cop
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 across	advmod
13	safely	safely	ADV	_	14 across	advmod
14	across	across	ADV	_	5 did	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 walked	cc
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 walked	aux
17	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 did	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 time	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 time	det
20	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 time	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 walked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seemed	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 forest	det
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seemed	nsubj
25	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	31 familiar	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 familiar	cop
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 familiar	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 familiar	cc
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 familiar	advmod
31	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 seemed	ccomp
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 familiar	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 length	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 length	cc
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 length	case
37	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seemed	xcomp
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 saw	nsubj
39	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 length	acl:relcl
40	from	from	ADP	_	45 house	case
41	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 house	amod
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 father	nmod:poss
43	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 house	nmod:poss
44	’s	's	PART	_	43 father	case
45	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 saw	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the good little duck						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Hansel					across, once, safely property	tree rules
3	walk	past · perfect	the good little duck not said here				time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seem	past	the forest	length					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive	the forest not said here		Hansel			familiar property	tree rules
6	see	past	Hansel	length not said here		Hansel's father's afar house			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer length=Stimulus

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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