The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 107
“First we’ll bake,” said the old dame; “I’ve heated the oven already and kneaded the dough.”
Who acts: we, old dame · What happens: bake, say, heat, knead · To what, where: old hag, dough · 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 (we, old dame), 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 | _ | 5 bake | punct |
| 2 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 bake | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bake | nsubj |
| 4 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bake | aux |
| 5 | bake | bake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bake | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bake | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bake | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dame | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dame | amod |
| 11 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 heated | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 heated | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 heated | nsubj |
| 15 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 heated | aux:pass |
| 16 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bake | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 oven | det |
| 18 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heated | obj |
| 19 | already | already | ADV | _ | 16 heated | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kneaded | cc |
| 21 | kneaded | knead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heated | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dough | det |
| 23 | dough | dough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kneaded | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bake | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake in a quote | future | we | first property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old dame | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | heat in a quote | present · passive | the old hag = hag | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | knead in a quote | past | the dough | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent dough=Material |
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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