Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 23
His father said: ‘Hansel, what are you looking at there and staying behind for?
Who acts: father, you · What happens: say, hansel, look, stay · 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 (father, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hansel | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hansel | punct |
| 6 | Hansel | hansel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 looking | obl |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 looking | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 looking | nsubj |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 Hansel | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 there | case |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 looking | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 staying | cc |
| 15 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 looking | conj |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 15 staying | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 staying | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Gretel's father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hansel | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | look | present · progressive | you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at there=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stay | gerund | you not said here | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «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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