The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 109
“Creep in,” said the witch, “and see if it’s properly heated, so that we can shove in the bread.”
Who acts: witch, we · What happens: creep in, say, see, heat, shove · To what, where: oven, bread · 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 (witch, we), 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 | _ | 2 Creep | punct |
| 2 | Creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 Creep | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Creep | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Creep | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 witch | det |
| 8 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 heated | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heated | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 heated | aux:pass |
| 16 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 17 heated | advmod |
| 17 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 see | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shove | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 shove | advmod |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 shove | mark |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 shove | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 shove | aux |
| 23 | shove | shove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 see | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 bread | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bread | det |
| 26 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shove | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep in in a quote | infinitive | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | heat a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | oven | properly property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | shove in a quote | can | we | the bread | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in bread=Destination |
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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