Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 78

Hansel, who liked the taste of the roof, tore down a great piece of it, and Gretel pushed out the whole of one round window-pane, sat down, and enjoyed herself with it.

Who acts: you, Gretel · What happens: hansel, like, tore down, push out, sit down, enjoy · To what, where: taste, great piece, B, roof

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, Gretel), 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 liked	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hansel	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 taste	det
6	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 liked	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 roof	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roof	det
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taste	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tore	punct
11	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 liked	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 tore	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 piece	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 piece	amod
15	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tore	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 piece	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pushed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pushed	cc
20	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 pushed	nsubj
21	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hansel	parataxis
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 pushed	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 whole	det
24	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pushed	xcomp
25	of	of	ADP	_	30 pane	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 pane	nummod
27	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pane	amod
28	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pane	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 window	punct
30	pane	pane	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 whole	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sat	punct
32	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 pushed	conj
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 sat	compound:prt
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 enjoyed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 enjoyed	cc
36	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 pushed	conj
37	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 enjoyed	obj
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 enjoyed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hansel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hansel	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	like	past		the taste of the roof		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot taste=Theme
3	tore down	past		a great piece of piece		tree rules
4	push out	past	Gretel		whole property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	sit down	past	Gretel not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	enjoy	past	Gretel not said here	B	with piece	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus
7	taste			the roof		nom taste «cognition transitive»: of=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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