Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 80

Hansel and Gretel were so terribly frightened that they let fall what they had in their hands.

Who acts: you, crutches · What happens: hansel, be, let, fall, have · To what, where: hands

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, crutches), 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Gretel	cc
3	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hansel	conj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 frightened	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 frightened	advmod
6	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	7 frightened	advmod
7	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hansel	parataxis
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 let	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 let	nsubj
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 frightened	advcl
11	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 had	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fall	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hands	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hands	nmod:poss
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hansel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	hansel	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	is	past			frighten, terribly property	tree rules
3	let	past	crutches = crutch			tree rules
4	fall	infinitive	crutches = crutch not said here			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	have	past	crutches = crutch	crutches's hands		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/80/