Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 99
When four weeks had gone by, and Hansel still remained thin, she was seized with impatience and would not wait any longer.
Who acts: four weeks, you · What happens: go by, hansel, remain, seize, not wait · To what, where: woman
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 (four weeks, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 weeks | nummod |
| 3 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 Hansel | advcl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 gone | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Hansel | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Hansel | cc |
| 9 | Hansel | hansel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 remained | advmod |
| 11 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Hansel | advcl |
| 12 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 remained | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seized | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seized | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seized | aux:pass |
| 16 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Hansel | parataxis |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 impatience | case |
| 18 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seized | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wait | cc |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 wait | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 wait | advmod |
| 22 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 seized | conj |
| 23 | any | any | ADV | _ | 24 longer | advmod |
| 24 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 wait | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Hansel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past · perfect | four weeks | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hansel | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | remain | participle | you not said here | still | thin property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | seize | past · passive | woman | with impatience | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not wait | would | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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