Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 132

Then they began to run, rushed into the parlour, and threw themselves round their father’s neck.

Who acts: Hansel · What happens: begin, run, rush, throw · To what, where: parlour, Hansel

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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 run	mark
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rushed	punct
7	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 run	advcl
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 parlour	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 parlour	det
10	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rushed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 threw	cc
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 threw	obj
15	round	round	ADP	_	19 neck	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 neck	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 father	case
19	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Hansel			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	run	to-infinitive	Hansel not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rush	participle	Hansel not said here		the parlour			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into parlour=Destination
4	throw	past	Hansel not said here	Hansel			round Hansel's father's neck	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme

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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