The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 118
And as they had no longer any cause for fear, they went in the old hag’s house, and here they found, in every corner of the room, boxes with pearls and precious stones.
Who acts: Hansel · What happens: have, go, find · To what, where: cause, house, corner
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 had | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | advcl |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 longer | advmod |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 had | advmod |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 cause | det |
| 8 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 fear | case |
| 10 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cause | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hag | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hag | amod |
| 17 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 hag | case |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 found | cc |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 found | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 corner | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 corner | case |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 corner | det |
| 28 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 room | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 room | det |
| 31 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 corner | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 boxes | punct |
| 33 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 corner | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 pearls | case |
| 35 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 boxes | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 stones | cc |
| 37 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 stones | amod |
| 38 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 pearls | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Hansel | any cause | for fear; long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | past | Hansel | the old hag's house | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Hansel | every corner of the room and boxes with pearls and precious stones | here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Topic |
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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