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Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 98

Hansel, however, stretched out a little bone to her, and the old woman, who had dim eyes, could not see it, and thought it was Hansel’s finger, and was astonished that there was no way of fattening him.

Who acts: you, old woman, bone, way · What happens: hansel, stretch out, have, not see, think, be · To what, where: little bone, dim eyes, bone, finger, Gretel · 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 (you, old woman, bone, way), 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

punctadvmodpunctconjcompound:prtdetamodobjcasenmodpunctccdetamodnsubjpunctnsubjacl:relclamodobjpunctauxadvmodconjobjpunctccparataxisnsubjcopnmod:posscaseccomppunctcccopccompmarkexplccompdetnsubjmarkaclobjpunctrootHanselVERB,PUNCThoweverADV,PUNCTstretchedVERBoutADPaDETlittleADJboneNOUNtoADPherPRON,PUNCTandCCONJtheDEToldADJwomanNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONhadVERBdimADJeyesNOUN,PUNCTcouldAUXnotPARTseeVERBitPRON,PUNCTandCCONJthoughtVERBitPRONwasAUXHanselPROPN’sPARTfingerNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwasAUXastonishedADJthatSCONJtherePRONwasVERBnoDETwayNOUNofSCONJfatteningVERBhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HanselhanselVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
2,,PUNCT_5 stretchedpunct
3howeverhoweverADV_5 stretchedadvmod
4,,PUNCT_5 stretchedpunct
5stretchedstretchVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass1 Hanselconj
6outoutADP_5 stretchedcompound:prt
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 bonedet
8littlelittleADJDegree=Pos9 boneamod
9boneboneNOUNNumber=Sing5 stretchedobj
10totoADP_11 hercase
11hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 bonenmod
12,,PUNCT_25 seepunct
13andandCCONJ_25 seecc
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 womandet
15oldoldADJDegree=Pos16 womanamod
16womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing25 seensubj
17,,PUNCT_19 hadpunct
18whowhoPRONPronType=Rel19 hadnsubj
19hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 womanacl:relcl
20dimdimADJDegree=Pos21 eyesamod
21eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur19 hadobj
22,,PUNCT_16 womanpunct
23couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin25 seeaux
24notnotPARTPolarity=Neg25 seeadvmod
25seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf1 Hanselconj
26ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 seeobj
27,,PUNCT_29 thoughtpunct
28andandCCONJ_29 thoughtcc
29thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin1 Hanselparataxis
30ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 fingernsubj
31wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin34 fingercop
32HanselHanselPROPNNumber=Sing34 fingernmod:poss
33’s'sPART_32 Hanselcase
34fingerfingerNOUNNumber=Sing29 thoughtccomp
35,,PUNCT_38 astonishedpunct
36andandCCONJ_38 astonishedcc
37wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 astonishedcop
38astonishedastonishedADJDegree=Pos29 thoughtccomp
39thatthatSCONJ_41 wasmark
40theretherePRONPronType=Dem41 wasexpl
41wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 astonishedccomp
42nonoDETPronType=Neg43 waydet
43waywayNOUNNumber=Sing41 wasnsubj
44ofofSCONJ_45 fatteningmark
45fatteningfattenVERBVerbForm=Ger43 wayacl
46himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs45 fatteningobj
47..PUNCT_1 Hanselpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hanselimperativeyou not said heretree rules
2stretch outparticipleyou not said herea little boneto woman; however propertyvn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent bone=Patient to she=Result
3havepastthe old womandim eyesvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
4not seecouldthe old womanbonevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5think speech: otherpastvn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6is apastboneHansel's fingertree rules
7ispastastonished propertytree rules
8bepastno waytherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9fattengerundno way not said hereGretelvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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