Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 59
When it was noon, Gretel shared her piece of bread with Hansel, who had scattered his by the way.
Who acts: fire, Gretel, way · What happens: be, share, scatter · To what, where: noon, piece, Hansel
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 (fire, Gretel, way), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 noon | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 noon | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 noon | cop |
| 4 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shared | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 noon | punct |
| 6 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shared | nsubj |
| 7 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 piece | nmod:poss |
| 9 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shared | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bread | case |
| 11 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 piece | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Hansel | case |
| 13 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shared | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 scattered | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 scattered | aux |
| 17 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Hansel | acl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 scattered | obj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 scattered | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fire | noon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | share | past | Gretel | mother's piece of bread | with Hansel | tree rules | |||
| 3 | scatter | past · perfect · passive | the way | 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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