The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 106
Early in the morning Grettel had to go out and hang up the kettle full of water, and light the fire.
Who acts: Grettel · What happens: have, go out, hang up, light · To what, where: kettle, fire
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 (Grettel), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl |
| 5 | Grettel | Grettel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 had | xcomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hang | cc |
| 11 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 hang | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kettle | det |
| 14 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hang | obj |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kettle | amod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 full | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 light | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 light | cc |
| 20 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fire | det |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 light | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Grettel | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go out | to-infinitive | Grettel not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hang up | infinitive | Grettel not said here | the kettle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient | ||||
| 4 | light | infinitive | Grettel not said here | the fire | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
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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