Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 32

Hansel and Gretel sat by the fire, and when noon came, each ate a little piece of bread, and as they heard the strokes of the wood-axe they believed that their father was near.

Who acts: you, Gretel, noon, each, flames, father · What happens: hansel, sit, come, eat, hear, believe · To what, where: little piece, strokes, wood axe

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, noon, each), 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 sat	cc
3	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hansel	conj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 fire	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ate	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ate	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 came	advmod
11	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ate	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 ate	nsubj
15	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hansel	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 piece	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 piece	amod
18	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ate	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 bread	case
20	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 piece	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 heard	cc
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 heard	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heard	nsubj
25	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ate	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 strokes	det
27	strokes	stroke	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 heard	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 axe	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 axe	det
30	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 axe	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 wood	punct
32	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 strokes	nmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 believed	nsubj
34	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 axe	acl:relcl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 near	mark
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 father	nmod:poss
37	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 near	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 near	cop
39	near	near	ADV	_	34 believed	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hansel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hansel	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	sit	past	Gretel		by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location
3	come	past	noon			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	past	each	a little piece of bread		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
5	hear	past	flames = flame	the strokes of the wood axe		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer stroke=Stimulus
6	believe	past	flames = flame	the wood axe not said here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer axe=Stimulus
7	is	past	flames's father		near property	tree rules
8	stroke			the wood axe		nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient

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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