Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 70
‘We will set to work on that,’ said Hansel, ‘and have a good meal.
Who acts: We, Hansel · What happens: set, work, say, have · To what, where: good meal · 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 (We, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 work | mark |
| 6 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 work | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Hansel | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 have | cc |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 meal | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 meal | amod |
| 19 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | future | We | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | We not said here | on that | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Hansel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | infinitive | Hansel not said here | a good meal | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
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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