Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 51

Their piece of bread was given to them, but it was still smaller than the time before.

Who acts: piece · What happens: give, be · To what, where: piece, children

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 (piece), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 piece	nmod:poss
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bread	case
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 given	aux:pass
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 given	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 smaller	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 smaller	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 smaller	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 smaller	cop
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 smaller	advmod
14	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 given	parataxis
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 time	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smaller	obl
18	before	before	ADV	_	17 time	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		children's piece of bread	children = child				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to they=Recipient
2	is	past	piece				still; time	small property	tree rules

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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