Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 95
Gretel began to weep bitterly, but it was all in vain, for she was forced to do what the wicked witch commanded.
Who acts: Gretel, door, witch · What happens: begin, weep, be, force, do, command · To what, where: witch, wicked witch · 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 (Gretel, door, 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 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 weep | mark |
| 4 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 4 weep | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 vain | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 vain | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 vain | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 vain | cop |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 vain | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 vain | case |
| 12 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 began | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 forced | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 forced | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 forced | aux:pass |
| 17 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 began | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 forced | xcomp |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 witch | det |
| 22 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 witch | amod |
| 23 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 what | nsubj |
| 24 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 witch | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Gretel | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | weep | to-infinitive | Gretel not said here | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | door | all, vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | force | past · passive | witch | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | witch not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | command | participle | the wicked witch not said here | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: 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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