The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 117
How they rejoiced, and fell on each other’s necks, and jumped for joy, and kissed one another!
Who acts: Hansel · What happens: rejoice, fall, jump, kiss · To what, where: necks, one
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 (Hansel), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 rejoiced | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 3 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 jumped | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fell | cc |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rejoiced | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 each | case |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 necks | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 other | case |
| 11 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fell | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 jumped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 jumped | cc |
| 14 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 jumped | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kissed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kissed | cc |
| 19 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 jumped | conj |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 kissed | obj |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 one | fixed |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past | Hansel | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | Hansel not said here | each other's necks | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient neck=Result | ||||
| 3 | jump | past | for joy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kiss | past | one | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-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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