The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 1

Once upon a time there dwelt on the outskirts of a large forest a poor woodcutter with his wife and two children; the boy was called Hansel and the girl Grettel.

What happens: dwell, call · To what, where: poor woodcutter, outskirts, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 dwelt	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwelt	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dwelt	advmod
6	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 outskirts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 outskirts	det
9	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dwelt	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 forest	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 forest	det
12	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 forest	amod
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 outskirts	nmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woodcutter	det
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woodcutter	amod
16	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwelt	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 wife	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wife	nmod:poss
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 woodcutter	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 children	cc
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 children	nummod
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wife	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 called	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boy	det
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 called	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 called	aux:pass
27	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dwelt	parataxis
28	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 called	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 girl	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 girl	det
31	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Hansel	conj
32	Grettel	Grettel	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Hansel	flat
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dwell	past		a poor woodcutter		the outskirts of a large forest; there	time	with his wife and two children; once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woodcutter=Location
2	call	past · passive		the boy					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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