Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 56

Hansel, however little by little, threw all the crumbs on the path.

Who acts: you · What happens: hansel, throw · To what, where: little, crumbs, path

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), 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	Hansel	hansel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hansel	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hansel	obl:unmarked
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 little	case
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hansel	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 threw	punct
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hansel	parataxis
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 crumbs	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crumbs	det
11	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 threw	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 path	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 path	det
14	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threw	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hansel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hansel	imperative	you not said here	little				by little	tree rules
2	throw	past		all crumbs		the path			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme on path=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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