Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 69

And when its song was over, it spread its wings and flew away before them, and they followed it until they reached a little house, on the roof of which it alighted; and when they approached the little house they saw that it was built of bread and covered with cakes, but that the windows were of clear sugar.

Who acts: song, help, Hansel, windows · What happens: be over, spread, fly away, follow, reach, alight · To what, where: wings, help, little house, roof · 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 (song, help, Hansel, windows), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 spread	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 was	mark
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 song	nmod:poss
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spread	advcl
6	over	over	ADV	_	5 was	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 was	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spread	nsubj
9	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wings	nmod:poss
11	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spread	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 flew	cc
13	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spread	conj
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 flew	advmod
15	before	before	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flew	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 followed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 followed	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 followed	nsubj
20	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flew	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 followed	obj
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 reached	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 reached	nsubj
24	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 followed	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 house	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 house	amod
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reached	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 roof	punct
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 roof	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 roof	det
31	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reached	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 alighted	obl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 alighted	nsubj:pass
35	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 roof	acl:relcl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 approached	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 approached	cc
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 approached	advmod
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 approached	nsubj
40	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spread	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 house	det
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 house	amod
43	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 approached	obj
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 saw	nsubj
45	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 house	acl:relcl
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 built	mark
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 built	nsubj:pass
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 built	aux:pass
49	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 saw	ccomp
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 bread	case
51	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 built	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 covered	cc
53	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 built	conj
54	with	with	ADP	_	55 cakes	case
55	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 covered	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 sugar	punct
57	but	but	CCONJ	_	64 sugar	cc
58	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 sugar	mark
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 windows	det
60	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 sugar	nsubj
61	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 sugar	cop
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 sugar	case
63	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 sugar	amod
64	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 approached	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be over	past	help's song				over property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spread	past	help	help's wings				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
3	fly away	past	help not said here			before Hansel	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location
4	follow	past	Hansel	help				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	reach	past	Hansel	a little house	the roof			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme
6	alight	participle · passive		help			of the roof	tree rules
7	approach	past	Hansel	the little house				vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
8	see	past	Hansel	the little house not said here				tree rules
9	build	past · passive		help			of bread	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
10	cover	participle					with cakes	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cake=Theme
11	is	past	the windows				of clear sugar	tree rules
12	sing		help					nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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