Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 89

When Hansel and Gretel came into her neighbourhood, she laughed with malice, and said mockingly: ‘I have them, they shall not escape me again!’

Who acts: Hansel, witch, I · What happens: come, laugh, say, have, not escape · To what, where: neighbourhood, Hansel, me · 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 (Hansel, witch, I), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
2	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Gretel	cc
4	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hansel	conj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laughed	advcl
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 neighbourhood	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 neighbourhood	nmod:poss
8	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laughed	nsubj
11	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 malice	case
13	malice	malice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laughed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laughed	conj
17	mockingly	mockingly	ADV	_	16 said	advmod
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 have	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 escape	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 escape	nsubj
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 escape	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 escape	advmod
27	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 have	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 escape	obj
29	again	again	ADV	_	27 escape	advmod
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 laughed	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Hansel and Gretel		witch's neighbourhood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into neighbourhood=Initial_Location
2	laugh	past	witch				with malice	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	witch not said here				mockingly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	present	I	Hansel				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	not escape	shall	Hansel	me		again		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Initial_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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