Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 19

She gave each a little piece of bread, and said: ‘There is something for your dinner, but do not eat it up before then, for you will get nothing else.’

Who acts: woman, something, you · What happens: give, say, be, not eat up, get · To what, where: little piece, piece, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, something, you), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 piece	det
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 piece	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 piece	amod
6	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 bread	case
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 piece	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
14	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 is	expl
15	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 is	nsubj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 dinner	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dinner	nmod:poss
19	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 something	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eat	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 eat	cc
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 eat	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 eat	advmod
24	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 eat	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 eat	compound:prt
27	before	before	ADP	_	28 then	case
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 eat	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 get	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 get	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 get	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 get	aux
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 eat	conj
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 get	obj
35	else	else	ADV	_	34 nothing	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	give	past	woman	each little piece of bread		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	woman not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	present	something		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not eat up	infinitive · do-support		piece		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	get	future	you	nothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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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