Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 54

‘I am looking back at my little pigeon which is sitting on the roof, and wants to say goodbye to me,’ answered Hansel.

Who acts: I, little pigeon · What happens: look back, sit, want, say, answer · To what, where: roof, goodbye, me, Hansel · 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 (I, little pigeon), 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	_	4 looking	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 looking	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 looking	aux
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 answered	ccomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 looking	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 pigeon	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pigeon	nmod:poss
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pigeon	amod
9	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looking	obl
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 sitting	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sitting	aux
12	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 pigeon	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 roof	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 roof	det
15	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wants	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wants	cc
18	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 looking	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 say	mark
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wants	xcomp
21	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 say	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 say	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 looking	punct
26	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 answered	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	look back	present · progressive	I				at my little pigeon	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pigeon=Theme
2	sit	present · progressive	my little pigeon			the roof		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location
3	want	present	I not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	goodbye	me			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic to i=Recipient
5	answer speech: assert	past			Hansel			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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