Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 45

The woman, however, would listen to nothing that he had to say, but scolded and reproached him.

Who acts: woman, other · What happens: listen, have, say, scold, reproach · To what, where: other · 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 (woman, other), 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 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 listen	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 woman	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 listen	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 listen	aux
7	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 nothing	case
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 listen	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 nothing	acl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 say	mark
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 scolded	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 scolded	cc
17	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 listen	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 reproached	cc
19	reproached	reproach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 scolded	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 reproached	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen	would	the woman		to nothing; however property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to nothing=Theme
2	have	past	other			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	other not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	scold	past				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	reproach	past		other		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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