Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 88
Witches have red eyes, and cannot see far, but they have a keen scent like the beasts, and are aware when human beings draw near.
Who acts: Witches, children, human beings · What happens: have, not see, be, draw · To what, where: red eyes, keen scent
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 (Witches, children, human beings), 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 | Witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyes | amod |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 see | cc |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 see | advmod |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | conj |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 see | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 scent | det |
| 16 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 scent | amod |
| 17 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 beasts | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beasts | det |
| 20 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 scent | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 aware | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 aware | cc |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 aware | cop |
| 24 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 have | conj |
| 25 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 draw | mark |
| 26 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 beings | amod |
| 27 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 draw | nsubj |
| 28 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 aware | ccomp |
| 29 | near | near | ADV | _ | 28 draw | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Witches | red eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not see | can | Witches not said here | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | have | present | children = child | a keen scent | like the beasts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Patient | |||
| 4 | is | present | Witches not said here | aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | draw | present | human beings | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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