Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Gretel, sentence 33
Gretel was not idle; she ran screaming to her master, and cried: ‘You have invited a fine guest!’
Who acts: Gretel · What happens: not be, run, scream, cry, invite · To what, where: master, You
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever 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 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 idle | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 idle | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 idle | advmod |
| 4 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 idle | conj |
| 8 | screaming | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 ran | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 master | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 master | nmod:poss |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 screaming | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 idle | parataxis |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 invited | punct |
| 17 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 invited | aux |
| 19 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cried | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 guest | det |
| 21 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 guest | amod |
| 22 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 invited | obj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 idle | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 idle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Gretel | idle property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Gretel | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | scream speech: express | gerund | Gretel not said here | Gretel's master | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | invite | present · perfect · passive | You | 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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