Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 83
She took them both by the hand, and led them into her little house.
Who acts: harm · What happens: take, lead · To what, where: children, little house
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 (harm), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | both | both | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hand | det |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 led | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 led | cc |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 led | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 house | amod |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | harm | children = child | by the hand; both property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead | past | harm not said here | children = child | harm's little house | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into house=Destination |
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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