Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 33
It was not the axe, however, but a branch which he had fastened to a withered tree which the wind was blowing backwards and forwards.
Who acts: piece, wind · What happens: not be, fasten, wither, blow · To what, where: axe, branch, withered tree
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 (piece, wind), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 axe | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 axe | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 axe | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 axe | det |
| 5 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 axe | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 branch | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 branch | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 branch | det |
| 11 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 axe | appos |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fastened | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fastened | aux |
| 15 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 branch | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 18 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 tree | amod |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fastened | obl |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 blowing | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wind | det |
| 22 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blowing | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 blowing | aux |
| 24 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 tree | acl |
| 25 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 24 blowing | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 forwards | cc |
| 27 | forwards | forwards | ADV | _ | 25 backwards | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 axe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | piece | the axe | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fasten | past · perfect · passive | a branch | to a withered tree | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | blow | past · progressive | the wind | a withered tree | backwards property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent which=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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