Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 39

They walked the whole night long, and by break of day came once more to their father’s house.

Who acts: Hansel · What happens: walk, come, break · To what, where: more, day

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), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 night	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	amod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl:unmarked
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 walked	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 break	case
10	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 day	case
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 break	nmod
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 came	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 house	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 house	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 father	case
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Hansel		night	long property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	Hansel not said here	more		by break of day; to Hansel's father's house	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme
3	break			day			nom break «event 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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