Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 27

Hansel, however, had not been looking back at the cat, but had been constantly throwing one of the white pebble-stones out of his pocket on the road.

Who acts: you · What happens: hansel, not look back, throw · To what, where: one, pocket

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 (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	Hansel	hansel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hansel	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	1 Hansel	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 looking	punct
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 looking	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 looking	advmod
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 looking	aux
8	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Hansel	conj
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 looking	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 cat	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 throwing	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 throwing	cc
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 throwing	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 throwing	aux
17	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	18 throwing	advmod
18	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 looking	advcl
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 throwing	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	25 stones	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stones	det
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stones	amod
23	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stones	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 pebble	punct
25	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 one	nmod
26	out	out	ADP	_	29 pocket	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 pocket	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 pocket	nmod:poss
29	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throwing	obl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 road	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 road	det
32	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throwing	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hansel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hansel	imperative	you not said here			however property	tree rules
2	not look back	past · perfect · progressive	you not said here			at the cat	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cat=Theme
3	throw	past · perfect · progressive	you not said here	one of the white pebble stones	cat's pocket	on the road; constantly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent one=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location

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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