Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 29
Hansel and Gretel gathered brushwood together, as high as a little hill.
Who acts: you, Gretel · What happens: hansel, gather · To what, where: brushwood
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, 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 | Hansel | hansel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gathered | cc |
| 3 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gathered | nsubj |
| 4 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hansel | conj |
| 5 | brushwood | brushwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gathered | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 gathered | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 high | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 high | case |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Hansel | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 hill | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hill | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hill | amod |
| 13 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 high | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hansel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hansel | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gather | past | Gretel | brushwood | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brushwood=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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