Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 93
Then she went to Gretel, shook her till she awoke, and cried: ‘Get up, lazy thing, fetch some water, and cook something good for your brother, he is in the stable outside, and is to be made fat.
Who acts: witch, Gretel · What happens: go, shake, awake, cry, get up, fetch · To what, where: Gretel, witch, water, something, stable · 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 (witch, Gretel), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Gretel | case |
| 5 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shook | punct |
| 7 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shook | obj |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 awoke | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 awoke | nsubj |
| 11 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shook | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Get | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 Get | punct |
| 17 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cried | ccomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 Get | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thing | punct |
| 20 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 thing | amod |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Get | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fetch | punct |
| 23 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 Get | conj |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 water | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fetch | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cook | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 cook | cc |
| 28 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Get | conj |
| 29 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 cook | obj |
| 30 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 something | amod |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 brother | case |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 brother | nmod:poss |
| 33 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cook | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 stable | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 stable | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 stable | cop |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 stable | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 stable | det |
| 39 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Get | parataxis |
| 40 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 39 stable | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 made | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 made | cc |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 made | aux:pass |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 made | mark |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 made | aux:pass |
| 46 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | parataxis |
| 47 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 made | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | witch | Gretel | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gretel=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | shake | past | witch not said here | witch | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | awake | past | witch | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | witch not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | get up | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | fetch | infinitive | some water | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||||
| 7 | cook | infinitive | something | for your brother | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent something=Material for brother=Beneficiary | ||||
| 8 | is | present | Gretel | the stable | outside property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | make | present · passive | fat property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
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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