Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Hans, sentence 50
‘What did Gretel give you?’
Who acts: Gretel · What happens: give · To what, where: you
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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 give | obj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · do-support | Gretel | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=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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