Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 53

‘Hansel, why do you stop and look round?’ said the father, ‘go on.’

Who acts: you, Hansel · What happens: stop, look round, say, go on · To what, where: father · 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 (you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hansel	punct
2	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stop	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 stop	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stop	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 stop	nsubj
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Hansel	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 look	cc
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 stop	conj
10	round	round	ADV	_	9 look	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Hansel	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hansel	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 father	det
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
18	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
19	on	on	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	present · do-support	you			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	look round	infinitive	you not said here		round property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Hansel	the father		tree rules
4	go on	infinitive				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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