The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 115

Grettel flew straight to Hansel, opened the little stable-door, and cried: “Hansel, we are free; the old witch is dead.”

Who acts: Grettel, we, old witch · What happens: fly, hansel, open, cry, be · To what, where: little stable door · 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, we, old 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	Grettel	Grettel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 Hansel	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 Hansel	mark
5	Hansel	hansel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 flew	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 opened	punct
7	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 door	amod
10	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 door	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 stable	punct
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opened	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cried	cc
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 Hansel	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 Hansel	punct
18	Hansel	hansel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 cried	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 free	punct
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 free	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 free	cop
22	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Hansel	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 dead	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 witch	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 witch	amod
26	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dead	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 dead	cop
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flew	parataxis
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 dead	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Grettel			tree rules
2	hansel	to-infinitive	Grettel not said here		straight property	tree rules
3	open	past	Grettel not said here	the little stable door		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past	Grettel not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	hansel in a quote	infinitive				tree rules
6	is in a quote	present	we		free property	tree rules
7	is in a quote	present	the old witch		dead 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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