The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 114
Gracious! how she yelled, it was quite horrible; but Grettel fled, and the wretched old woman was left to perish miserably.
Who acts: goose, shove, Grettel, wretched old woman · What happens: yell, be, flee, leave, perish · To what, where: wretched old 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 (goose, shove, Grettel, wretched old woman), 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 | Gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 yelled | advcl |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gracious | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 yelled | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 yelled | nsubj |
| 5 | yelled | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 horrible | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 horrible | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 horrible | cop |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 horrible | advmod |
| 10 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 yelled | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 fled | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 fled | cc |
| 13 | Grettel | Grettel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 fled | nsubj |
| 14 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 yelled | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 left | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 18 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woman | amod |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woman | amod |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 left | aux:pass |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 fled | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 perish | mark |
| 24 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 left | xcomp |
| 25 | miserably | miserably | ADV | _ | 24 perish | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 yelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yell speech: express | past | goose | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | shove | horrible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flee | past | Grettel | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | past · passive | the wretched old woman | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | perish | to-infinitive | the wretched old woman not said here | miserably property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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