Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 90

Early in the morning before the children were awake, she was already up, and when she saw both of them sleeping and looking so pretty, with their plump and rosy cheeks she muttered to herself: ‘That will be a dainty mouthful!’

Who acts: witch, That · What happens: be, see, sleep, look, mutter · To what, where: both, plump cheeks, witch, dainty mouthful

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 (witch, That), 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	Early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 morning	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 morning	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 awake	obl
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 children	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 awake	obl
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 awake	cop
9	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 up	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 up	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 up	cop
13	already	already	ADV	_	14 up	advmod
14	up	up	ADV	_	9 awake	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saw	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 saw	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 awake	conj
20	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	19 saw	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 both	nmod
23	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 both	acl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 looking	cc
25	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 sleeping	conj
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 pretty	advmod
27	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	25 looking	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cheeks	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	34 cheeks	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 cheeks	nmod:poss
31	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 cheeks	amod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 rosy	cc
33	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 plump	conj
34	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 looking	obl
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 muttered	nsubj
36	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 cheeks	acl:relcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 herself	case
38	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 muttered	obl
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	46 mouthful	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	46 mouthful	punct
41	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 mouthful	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 mouthful	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 mouthful	cop
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 mouthful	det
45	dainty	dainty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 mouthful	amod
46	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saw	obl
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	46 mouthful	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	46 mouthful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				before the children; morning	awake property	tree rules
2	is	past	witch				up property	tree rules
3	see	past	witch	both				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer both=Stimulus
4	sleep	gerund						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look	gerund					with children's plump cheeks; pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	mutter speech: assert	past	witch	children's plump cheeks not said here	witch			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cheek=Topic to herself=Recipient
7	is a	future	That	a dainty mouthful				tree rules

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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