Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 81
The old woman, however, nodded her head, and said: ‘Oh, you dear children, who has brought you here? do come in, and stay with me.
Who acts: old woman, you · What happens: nod, say, child, bring, come in, stay · To what, where: head, dear children · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old woman, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nodded | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 woman | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 nodded | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nodded | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 nodded | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 15 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 19 children | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Oh | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 children | nsubj |
| 18 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 children | amod |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 brought | aux |
| 23 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 come | nsubj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 brought | obj |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 brought | advmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 brought | punct |
| 27 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 come | aux |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADV | _ | 28 come | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stay | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 stay | cc |
| 32 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 come | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 stay | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | the old woman | woman's head | however property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | child | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | bring | present · perfect · passive | dear children | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come in | present · do-support | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | stay | infinitive | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |
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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