Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 166
Then Gretel became angry, tore herself loose and ran away, and was no longer the bride of Hans.
Who acts: Gretel · What happens: become, tore, run away, be · To what, where: Gretel, bride
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Hans. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 became | advmod |
| 2 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tore | punct |
| 6 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 tore | obj |
| 8 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tore | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 ran | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bride | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bride | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bride | cop |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 longer | advmod |
| 16 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 bride | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bride | det |
| 18 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Hans | case |
| 20 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 bride | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Gretel | then | angry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | tore | past | Gretel not said here | Gretel | loose property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | run away | past | Gretel not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the bride | of Hans; long 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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