Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 91
Then she seized Hansel with her shrivelled hand, carried him into a little stable, and locked him in behind a grated door.
Who acts: witch · What happens: seize, carry, lock, grate · To what, where: Hansel, Gretel, little stable, grated door
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), 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 | 3 seized | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shrivelled | shrivelled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hand | amod |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 carried | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 stable | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stable | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stable | amod |
| 15 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 locked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 locked | cc |
| 18 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 locked | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 door | case |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 door | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 door | det |
| 23 | grated | grate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 door | amod |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 locked | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | witch | Hansel | then | with witch's shrivelled hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hansel=Theme | ||
| 2 | carry | past | witch not said here | Gretel | a little stable | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | lock | past | witch not said here | Gretel | a grated door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 4 | grate | participle | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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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