The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 119

“These are even better than pebbles,” said Hansel, and crammed his pockets full of them; and Grettel said: “I too will bring something home,” and she filled her apron full.

Who acts: These, better, Grettel, witch · What happens: be, say, cram, bring, fill · To what, where: pockets, something, apron · 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 (These, better, Grettel, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct
2	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 better	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 better	cop
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 said	nsubj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 pebbles	case
7	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 better	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 better	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 crammed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 crammed	cc
14	crammed	cram	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pockets	nmod:poss
16	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 crammed	obj
17	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 crammed	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 full	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
22	Grettel	Grettel	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 bring	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 bring	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 bring	nsubj
27	too	too	ADV	_	29 bring	advmod
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 bring	aux
29	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
30	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 bring	obj
31	home	home	ADV	_	29 bring	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bring	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 bring	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 filled	cc
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 filled	nsubj
36	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 said	conj
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 apron	nmod:poss
38	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 filled	obj
39	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 filled	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	These		than pebbles; good property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	better			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	cram	past	better not said here	boy's pockets	full property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pocket=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past	Grettel			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	bring in a quote	future	Grettel	something	home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent something=Theme
6	fill	past	witch	witch's apron	full property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent apron=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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