Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 37
But Hansel comforted her and said: ‘Just wait a little, until the moon has risen, and then we will soon find the way.’
Who acts: Hansel, we · What happens: comfort, say, wait, rise, find · To what, where: branch, little, moon, way · 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 (Hansel, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 comforted | cc |
| 2 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 comforted | nsubj |
| 3 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 comforted | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 comforted | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 wait | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 wait | punct |
| 9 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 10 wait | advmod |
| 10 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 risen | punct |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 risen | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moon | det |
| 16 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 risen | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 risen | aux |
| 18 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 wait | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 find | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 find | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 find | advmod |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 find | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 find | aux |
| 24 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 find | advmod |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wait | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 way | det |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 find | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wait | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | past | Hansel | branch | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hansel not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wait | infinitive | a little | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rise | present · perfect · passive | the moon | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | find | future | we | the way | then | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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