English Fairy Tales, XXX. Mr. Miacca., sentence 5

In the Grimms' “Hansel and Grethel,” Hansel pokes out a stick instead of his finger that the witch may not think him fat enough for the table.

Who acts: Hansel, witch · What happens: poke out, not think · To what, where: stick, Hansel, Grethel

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXX. Mr. Miacca.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hansel, witch), 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	In	in	ADP	_	6 Hansel	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Grimms	det
3	Grimms	Grimm	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 Hansel	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 Grimms	case
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Hansel	punct
6	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 pokes	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Grethel	cc
8	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Hansel	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Hansel	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Hansel	punct
11	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 pokes	nsubj
12	pokes	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 pokes	compound:prt
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stick	det
15	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pokes	obj
16	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	19 finger	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 instead	fixed
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 finger	nmod:poss
19	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pokes	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 think	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 witch	det
22	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 think	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 think	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 think	advmod
25	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pokes	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 think	obj
27	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 think	xcomp
28	enough	enough	ADV	_	27 fat	advmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 table	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 table	det
31	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fat	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 pokes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke out	present	Hansel	a stick		the Grimms's Hansel and Grethel		instead Grethel's finger	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
2	not think speech: other	may	the witch	Grethel				fat property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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