Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 14
And when the old folks had fallen asleep, he got up, put on his little coat, opened the door below, and crept outside.
Who acts: old folks, Gretel · What happens: fall, get up, put, open, creep · To what, where: little coat, door
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 (old folks, Gretel), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 fallen | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 folks | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 folks | amod |
| 5 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fallen | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fallen | aux |
| 7 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 got | advcl |
| 8 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fallen | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fallen | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 got | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 got | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 coat | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 coat | nmod:poss |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 coat | amod |
| 18 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 opened | punct |
| 20 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 opened | obj |
| 23 | below | below | ADV | _ | 22 door | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 crept | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 crept | cc |
| 26 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | conj |
| 27 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 26 crept | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | the old folks | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get up | past | Gretel | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | put | participle | Gretel not said here | Gretel's little coat | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on coat=Destination | ||||
| 4 | open | past | Gretel not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 5 | creep | past | Gretel not said here | outside property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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