Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 60
Then they fell asleep and evening passed, but no one came to the poor children.
Who acts: Hansel, evening, one · What happens: fall, pass, come
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, evening, one), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 fell | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fell | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 passed | cc |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | nsubj |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 children | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 children | det |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 children | amod |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Hansel | then | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | pass | past | evening | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | no one | to the poor children | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to child=Initial_Location |
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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