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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hansel | hansel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stretched | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 stretched | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stretched | punct |
| 5 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Hansel | conj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 stretched | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bone | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bone | amod |
| 9 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stretched | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bone | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 see | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 woman | acl:relcl |
| 20 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eyes | amod |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 had | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 woman | punct |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 see | advmod |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Hansel | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 see | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 thought | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 thought | cc |
| 29 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hansel | parataxis |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 finger | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 finger | cop |
| 32 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 finger | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 Hansel | case |
| 34 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thought | ccomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 astonished | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 astonished | cc |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 astonished | cop |
| 38 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 thought | ccomp |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 was | mark |
| 40 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 41 was | expl |
| 41 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 astonished | ccomp |
| 42 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 43 way | det |
| 43 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 was | nsubj |
| 44 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 45 fattening | mark |
| 45 | fattening | fatten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 way | acl |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 fattening | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hansel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hansel | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stretch out | participle | you not said here | a little bone | to woman; however property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent bone=Patient to she=Result | |||
| 3 | have | past | the old woman | dim eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not see | could | the old woman | bone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is a | past | bone | Hansel's finger | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | past | astonished property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | be | past | no way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | fatten | gerund | no way not said here | Gretel | vn 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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