The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 105
“Just hold your peace,” said the old hag; “it won’t help you.”
Who acts: old hag, hag, your · What happens: hold, say, not help, pacify · To what, where: peace, you · 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: who acts (old hag, hag, your), 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 | _ | 3 hold | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hold | aux |
| 3 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 peace | nmod:poss |
| 5 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hold | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hold | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hag | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hag | amod |
| 11 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 help | nsubj |
| 15 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 help | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 help | advmod |
| 17 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hold | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 help | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold in a quote | your peace | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old hag | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not help in a quote | future | hag | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | pacify in a quote | your | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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