The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 113
Then Grettel gave her a shove that sent her right in, shut the iron door, and drew the bolt.
Who acts: Grettel, shove · What happens: give, send, shut, draw · To what, where: shove, goose, iron door, bolt
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, shove), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | Grettel | Grettel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shove | det |
| 6 | shove | shove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shove | acl:relcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sent | obj |
| 10 | right | right | ADV | _ | 11 in | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 sent | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shut | punct |
| 13 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 15 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 door | amod |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shut | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drew | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drew | cc |
| 19 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bolt | det |
| 21 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drew | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Grettel | a shove | goose | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient shove=Theme | ||
| 2 | send | past | a shove | goose | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shut | infinitive | Grettel not said here | the iron door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 4 | draw | past | Grettel not said here | the bolt | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=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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