Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 97

Every morning the woman crept to the little stable, and cried: ‘Hansel, stretch out your finger that I may feel if you will soon be fat.’

Who acts: woman, I, you · What happens: creep, cry, hansel out, stretch out, feel, be · To what, where: little stable, finger · 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 (woman, I, you), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crept	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crept	nsubj
5	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 stable	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stable	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stable	amod
9	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crept	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cried	cc
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crept	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Hansel	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Hansel	punct
15	Hansel	hansel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cried	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stretch	punct
17	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Hansel	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	15 Hansel	compound:prt
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 finger	nmod:poss
20	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Hansel	obj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 feel	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 feel	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 feel	aux
24	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Hansel	advcl
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 fat	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 fat	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 fat	aux
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 fat	advmod
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 fat	cop
30	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 feel	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 crept	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	past	the woman		the little stable	morning		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to stable=Destination
2	cry speech: express	past	the woman not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hansel out	infinitive		your finger				tree rules
4	stretch out	infinitive						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	feel	may	I					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	is a condition, not said to happen	future	you				fat, soon property	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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