Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 22
When they had walked a short time, Hansel stood still and peeped back at the house, and did so again and again.
Who acts: Hansel · What happens: walk, stand, peep back, do
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 walked | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | aux |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 stood | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
| 9 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 stood | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 peeped | cc |
| 13 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stood | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 peeped | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 peeped | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 did | cc |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stood | conj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 again | advmod |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 did | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 again | cc |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 again | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · perfect | Hansel | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Hansel | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | peep back | past | Hansel not said here | at the house | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at house=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past | Hansel not said here | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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