Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 134

Gretel emptied her pinafore until pearls and precious stones ran about the room, and Hansel threw one handful after another out of his pocket to add to them.

Who acts: Gretel, pearls, Hansel · What happens: empty, run, throw, add · To what, where: pinafore, one handful, pocket, 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 (Gretel, pearls, 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	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 emptied	nsubj
2	emptied	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pinafore	nmod:poss
4	pinafore	pinafore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 emptied	obj
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 ran	mark
6	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ran	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stones	cc
8	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stones	amod
9	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pearls	conj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 emptied	advcl
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 room	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ran	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 threw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 threw	cc
16	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 threw	nsubj
17	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 emptied	conj
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 handful	nummod
19	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obj
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 another	case
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 threw	obl
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 pocket	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 pocket	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 pocket	nmod:poss
25	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 add	mark
27	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 threw	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 add	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 emptied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	empty	past	Gretel	woman's pinafore					vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pinafore=Source
2	run	past	pearls and precious stones					about the room	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about room=Trajectory
3	throw	past	Hansel	one handful		Gretel's pocket	after another		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent handful=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location
4	add speech: assert	to-infinitive	Hansel not said here		Hansel				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to they=Co-Patient

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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