Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 96
And now the best food was cooked for poor Hansel, but Gretel got nothing but crab-shells.
Who acts: Gretel · What happens: cook, get · To what, where: best food, nothing
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cooked | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 cooked | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 food | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 food | amod |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cooked | aux:pass |
| 7 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Hansel | case |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Hansel | amod |
| 10 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cooked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 13 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cooked | conj |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 got | obj |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 shells | cc |
| 17 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shells | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 crab | punct |
| 19 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 nothing | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cooked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | past · passive | the best food | now | for poor Hansel | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Material for hansel=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | get | past | Gretel | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/20/96/