The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 108
She pushed Grettel out to the oven, from which fiery flames were already issuing.
Who acts: woman, fiery flames · What happens: push out, issue · To what, where: Grettel, oven
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 (woman, fiery flames), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pushed | nsubj |
| 2 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Grettel | Grettel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pushed | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 pushed | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 oven | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 oven | det |
| 7 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pushed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 issuing | punct |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 issuing | obl |
| 11 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 flames | amod |
| 12 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 issuing | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 issuing | aux |
| 14 | already | already | ADV | _ | 15 issuing | advmod |
| 15 | issuing | issue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 pushed | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push out | past | woman | Grettel | the oven | out property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent grettel=Theme to oven=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | issue | past · progressive | fiery flames | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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