The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 100
When four weeks had passed and Hansel still remained thin, she lost patience and determined to wait no longer.
Who acts: woman · What happens: pass, hansel, remain, lose, wait · To what, where: four weeks, patience
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: who acts (woman), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 passed | advmod |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 weeks | nummod |
| 3 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Hansel | cc |
| 7 | Hansel | hansel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 passed | conj |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 remained | advmod |
| 9 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Hansel | advcl |
| 10 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 remained | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lost | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lost | nsubj |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | conj |
| 14 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 determined | cc |
| 16 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 patience | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wait | mark |
| 18 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lost | advcl |
| 19 | no | no | ADV | _ | 20 longer | advmod |
| 20 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 wait | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | four weeks | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | hansel | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | remain | participle | still | thin property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lose | past | woman | patience | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | wait | to-infinitive | woman not said here | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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