Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 86

The old woman had only pretended to be so kind; she was in reality a wicked witch, who lay in wait for children, and had only built the little house of bread in order to entice them there.

Who acts: woman, wicked witch · What happens: pretend, be, lay, build, entice · To what, where: old woman, reality, wait, little house, children

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 (woman, wicked witch), 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	6 pretended	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pretended	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 pretended	advmod
6	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	10 kind	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 kind	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 kind	advmod
10	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pretended	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 reality	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 reality	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 reality	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 reality	case
15	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pretended	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 witch	det
17	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 witch	amod
18	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reality	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lay	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 lay	nsubj
21	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 witch	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 wait	case
23	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 children	case
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wait	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 built	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 built	cc
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 built	aux
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 built	advmod
30	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 pretended	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 house	amod
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 built	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 bread	case
35	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 house	nmod
36	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	39 entice	mark
37	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 in	fixed
38	to	to	PART	_	39 entice	mark
39	entice	entice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 built	advcl
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 entice	obj
41	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 entice	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pretend	past · perfect · passive		the old woman			tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive				kind property	tree rules
3	is	past	woman		reality		tree rules
4	lay	present	a wicked witch		wait for children		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in wait=Destination
5	build	past · perfect		the little house of bread			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product
6	entice	to-infinitive		children = child	there		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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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