The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 102

Hansel may be fat or thin, I’m going to kill him to-morrow and cook him.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: hansel, be, go, kill, cook · To what, where: Grettel

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 (you, I), 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	Hansel	hansel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fat	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fat	cop
4	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hansel	ccomp
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 thin	cc
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fat	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ’m	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 ’m	nsubj
9	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hansel	parataxis
10	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 ’m	xcomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 kill	mark
12	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 going	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kill	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 morrow	case
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 to	punct
16	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kill	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 cook	cc
18	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 kill	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cook	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hansel	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Hansel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hansel	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	is	may	you not said here		fat property	tree rules
3	be		you not said here			tree rules
4	be	present	I			tree rules
5	go	gerund	I not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	kill	to-infinitive	I not said here	Grettel	to morrow	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	cook	infinitive	I not said here	Grettel		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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