Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 79

Suddenly the door opened, and a woman as old as the hills, who supported herself on crutches, came creeping out.

Who acts: door, hills · What happens: open, support, come, creep out · To what, where: woman, crutches

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 (door, hills), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 opened	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 old	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 old	nsubj
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 old	advmod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 opened	conj
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 hills	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hills	det
13	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 old	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 supported	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 supported	nsubj
16	supported	support	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hills	acl:relcl
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 supported	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 crutches	case
19	crutches	crutch	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 supported	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	conj
22	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 came	xcomp
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 creeping	compound:prt
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	the door			suddenly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	support	past	the hills	woman	crutches		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus
3	come	past	the door not said here				tree rules
4	creep out	gerund	the door not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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