Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 52

On the way into the forest Hansel crumbled his in his pocket, and often stood still and threw a morsel on the ground.

Who acts: Hansel · What happens: crumble, stand, throw · To what, where: pocket, way, morsel, ground

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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crumbled	obl
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 way	nmod
7	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 crumbled	nsubj
8	crumbled	crumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pocket	nmod:poss
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 pocket	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pocket	nmod:poss
12	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crumbled	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stood	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stood	cc
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 stood	advmod
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 crumbled	conj
17	still	still	ADV	_	16 stood	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 threw	cc
19	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stood	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 morsel	det
21	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 threw	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 ground	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 threw	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 crumbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crumble	past	Hansel	other's pocket	the way into the forest			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient
2	stand	past	Hansel not said here			still	often property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	throw	past	Hansel not said here	a morsel	the ground			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent morsel=Theme on ground=Destination

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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