Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 72

Hansel reached up above, and broke off a little of the roof to try how it tasted, and Gretel leant against the window and nibbled at the panes.

Who acts: you, roof · What happens: hansel up, reach, break off, try, taste, nibble · To what, where: Gretel leant, little

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 (you, roof), 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	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Hansel	xcomp
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hansel	compound:prt
4	above	above	ADV	_	1 Hansel	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 broke	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 broke	cc
7	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hansel	parataxis
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 broke	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 little	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 broke	obl:unmarked
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 roof	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 roof	det
13	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broke	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 try	mark
15	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 broke	advcl
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 tasted	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tasted	nsubj
18	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 try	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 leant	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 leant	cc
21	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 leant	compound
22	leant	leant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hansel	obl
23	against	against	ADP	_	25 window	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 window	det
25	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leant	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 nibbled	cc
27	nibbled	nibble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 leant	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 panes	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 panes	det
30	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 nibbled	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hansel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hansel up	imperative	you not said here	Gretel leant against the window	above property	tree rules
2	reach	participle	you not said here			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	break off	past		a little	of the roof	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient of roof=Co-Patient
4	try	to-infinitive				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	taste	past	roof			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	nibble	participle	you not said here		at the panes	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at pane=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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