Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 63
Hansel said to Gretel: ‘We shall soon find the way,’ but they did not find it.
Who acts: Hansel, We · What happens: say, find, not find · To what, where: Gretel, way · 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 (Hansel, We), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Gretel | case |
| 4 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
| 7 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 find | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 find | aux |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 find | advmod |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 find | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 find | advmod |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 find | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hansel | Gretel | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to gretel=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find | shall | We | the way | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 3 | not find | past · do-support | Hansel | way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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