Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 38
And when the full moon had risen, Hansel took his little sister by the hand, and followed the pebbles which shone like newly-coined silver pieces, and showed them the way.
Who acts: Hansel, pebbles · What happens: rise, take, follow, shine, coin, show · To what, where: full moon, little sister, pebbles, Hansel
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, pebbles), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 risen | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moon | det |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 moon | amod |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 risen | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 risen | aux |
| 7 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 took | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 risen | punct |
| 9 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sister | amod |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hand | det |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 followed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 followed | cc |
| 19 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pebbles | det |
| 21 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 followed | obj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 shone | nsubj |
| 23 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pebbles | acl:relcl |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 pieces | case |
| 25 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 27 coined | advmod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 newly | punct |
| 27 | coined | coin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 pieces | amod |
| 28 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pieces | compound |
| 29 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shone | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 showed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 showed | cc |
| 32 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 showed | obj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 way | det |
| 35 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 showed | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past · perfect · passive | the full moon | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | Hansel | moon's little sister | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sister=Destination | |||
| 3 | follow | past | Hansel not said here | the pebbles | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shine | past | the pebbles | like coined silver pieces | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | coin | participle | newly property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | show | past | Hansel not said here | Hansel | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient 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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