The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 101
“Hi, Grettel,” she called to the girl, “be quick and get some water.
What happens: call, be, get · To what, where: Grettel, water · 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 2 | Hi | hi | INTJ | _ | 4 Grettel | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Grettel | punct |
| 4 | Grettel | Grettel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Grettel | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Grettel | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 girl | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 quick | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 quick | punct |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 quick | cop |
| 15 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 called | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 get | cc |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 quick | conj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 water | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 get | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | participle · passive | Grettel | to the girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | quick property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | infinitive | some water | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
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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