The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 110
For when she had got Grettel in she meant to close the oven and let the girl bake, that she might eat her up too.
Who acts: witch · What happens: get, mean, close, let, eat up · To what, where: Grettel, oven, girl bake, woman
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), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 got | mark |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 got | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | Grettel | Grettel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 meant | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 meant | nsubj |
| 9 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 close | mark |
| 11 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 meant | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 oven | det |
| 13 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 close | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 close | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bake | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bake | compound |
| 18 | bake | bake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 let | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eat | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 eat | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 eat | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 eat | aux |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 eat | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 eat | compound:prt |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 eat | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | witch | Grettel | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grettel=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | mean | past | witch | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | close not said to happen | to-infinitive | witch not said here | the oven | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oven=Patient | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | witch not said here | the girl bake | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bake=Theme | ||||
| 5 | eat up | might | witch | woman | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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