Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 133
The man had not known one happy hour since he had left the children in the forest; the woman, however, was dead.
Who acts: man · What happens: not know, leave, be · To what, where: man, children, forest
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 (man), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 known | advmod |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hour | nummod |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hour | amod |
| 8 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 known | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 12 left | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 left | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 known | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 children | det |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 left | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 woman | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 known | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dead | punct |
| 22 | however | however | ADV | _ | 25 dead | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 however | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 dead | cop |
| 25 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woman | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · perfect · passive | the man | hour | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | man | the children | the forest | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme in forest=Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | dead, however property | tree rules |
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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