Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 41
The father, however, rejoiced, for it had cut him to the heart to leave them behind alone.
Who acts: father · What happens: rejoice, cut, leave · To what, where: door, 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 (father), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 father | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 rejoiced | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cut | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 cut | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cut | aux |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rejoiced | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cut | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heart | det |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cut | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 leave | mark |
| 17 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cut | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 leave | obj |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 17 leave | advmod |
| 20 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 17 leave | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | participle | the father | however property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | cut | past · perfect · passive | door | to the heart result | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2 «NP V NP.patient NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: subject=Patient he=Extent to heart=Result | ||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | Hansel | alone, behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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