Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 66
It was now three mornings since they had left their father’s house.
Who acts: tree, Hansel · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: three mornings, house
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 (tree, Hansel), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mornings | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mornings | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 mornings | advmod |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 mornings | nummod |
| 5 | mornings | morning | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 9 left | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 left | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | aux |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 mornings | advcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 father | case |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mornings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tree | three mornings | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | Hansel | Hansel's father's house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
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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