The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 12
“No, no, Grettel,” said Hansel, “don’t fret yourself; I’ll be able to find a way to escape, no fear.”
Who acts: Grettel · What happens: say, not fret, be, find, escape · To what, where: yourself, way · 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), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 Grettel | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Grettel | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 Grettel | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Grettel | punct |
| 6 | Grettel | Grettel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Grettel | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Grettel | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fret | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fret | punct |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 fret | aux |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 fret | advmod |
| 15 | fret | fret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 fret | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 able | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 able | nsubj |
| 19 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 able | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 able | cop |
| 21 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 find | mark |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 able | xcomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 find | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 escape | mark |
| 27 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 way | acl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fear | punct |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 fear | det |
| 30 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 find | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Grettel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not fret in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Grettel not said here | yourself | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | Grettel | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | Grettel not said here | a way | no fear obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 5 | escape in a quote | to-infinitive | Grettel not said here | a way not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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