Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 48
When the old folks were asleep, Hansel again got up, and wanted to go out and pick up pebbles as he had done before, but the woman had locked the door, and Hansel could not get out.
Who acts: old folks, asleep Hansel, other, Hansel · What happens: be, get up, want, go out, pick up, do · To what, where: pebbles, woman
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 (old folks, asleep Hansel, other, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 asleep | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 folks | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 folks | amod |
| 4 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 asleep | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asleep | cop |
| 6 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Hansel | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 asleep | punct |
| 8 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 got | nsubj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 got | advmod |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 got | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wanted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wanted | cc |
| 14 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wanted | xcomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pick | cc |
| 19 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 pick | compound:prt |
| 21 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pick | obj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 done | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 done | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 done | aux |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 pick | advcl |
| 26 | before | before | ADV | _ | 25 done | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 locked | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 locked | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 woman | det |
| 30 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 locked | aux |
| 32 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 got | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 door | det |
| 34 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 locked | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 get | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 get | cc |
| 37 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 get | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 get | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 get | advmod |
| 40 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 locked | conj |
| 41 | out | out | ADV | _ | 40 get | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old folks | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get up | past | asleep Hansel | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | want | past | asleep Hansel not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | asleep Hansel not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | pick up | infinitive | asleep Hansel not said here | pebbles | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Topic | ||||
| 6 | do | past · perfect | other | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | lock | past · perfect · passive | the woman | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient door=Result | |||||
| 8 | not get out | could | Hansel | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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