Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 71

I will eat a bit of the roof, and you Gretel, can eat some of the window, it will taste sweet.’

Who acts: I, you, bit · What happens: eat, taste · To what, where: bit, some

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 (I, you, bit), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 eat	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bit	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 roof	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 roof	det
8	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 eat	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 eat	nsubj
12	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 you	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 you	punct
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 eat	aux
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 eat	conj
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 eat	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 window	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 window	det
19	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 some	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 taste	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 taste	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 taste	aux
23	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 eat	conj
24	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 taste	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	future	I	a bit of the roof		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
2	eat	can	you	some		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
3	taste	future	bit		sweet property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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