Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 84
Then good food was set before them, milk and pancakes, with sugar, apples, and nuts.
What happens: set · To what, where: good food
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 set | advmod |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 food | amod |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux:pass |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 set | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
| 9 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pancakes | cc |
| 11 | pancakes | pancake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 milk | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sugar | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 sugar | case |
| 14 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 milk | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 apples | punct |
| 16 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 milk | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 nuts | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 nuts | cc |
| 19 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 milk | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | good food | before children = child; then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme milk=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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