The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 111

But Grettel perceived her intention, and said: “I don’t know how I’m to do it; how do I get in?”

Who acts: Grettel, witch · What happens: perceive, say, not know, be, do, get in · To what, where: intention · 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, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 perceived	cc
2	Grettel	Grettel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 perceived	nsubj
3	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 intention	nmod:poss
5	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 perceived	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 perceived	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
13	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 know	advmod
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 ’m	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 ’m	nsubj
17	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 know	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 ’m	xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 do	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 get	punct
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 get	advmod
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 get	aux
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 get	nsubj
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 know	parataxis
26	in	in	ADV	_	25 get	advmod
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	perceive	past	Grettel	witch's intention	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer intention=Stimulus
2	say speech: ask	past	Grettel not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not know in a quote	present · do-support	Grettel		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	be in a quote	present	Grettel		tree rules
5	do in a quote	to-infinitive	Grettel not said here	intention	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	get in in a quote	present · do-support	Grettel		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	intend		witch		nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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