Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 74
‘Nibble, nibble, gnaw, Who is nibbling at my little house?’
Who acts: Nibble · What happens: gnaw, nibble
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 (Nibble), 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 | _ | 2 Nibble | punct |
| 2 | Nibble | nibble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nibble | punct |
| 4 | nibble | nibble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Nibble | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gnaw | punct |
| 6 | gnaw | gnaw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Nibble | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nibbling | punct |
| 8 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 nibbling | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 nibbling | aux |
| 10 | nibbling | nibble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Nibble | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 house | amod |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nibbling | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nibble | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nibble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gnaw | infinitive | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | nibble | present · progressive | Nibble and nibble | at my little house | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at house=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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