The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 11
Grettel wept bitterly and spoke to Hansel: “Now it’s all up with us.”
Who acts: Grettel, hunger · What happens: weep, speak, hansel, be · 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 (Grettel, hunger), 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 | Grettel | Grettel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 2 wept | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spoke | cc |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Hansel | case |
| 7 | Hansel | hansel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spoke | xcomp |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 up | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 up | punct |
| 10 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 up | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 up | nsubj |
| 12 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 up | cop |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 up | advmod |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 wept | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 up | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wept | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Grettel | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Grettel not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hansel | infinitive | Grettel not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | hunger | now | with us; all, up property | tree rules |
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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