The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 120
“But now,” said Hansel, “let’s go and get well away from the witch’s wood.”
Who acts: Hansel · What happens: say, let, go, get · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | ’s | 's | CCONJ | _ | 12 go | cc |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 get | cc |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | conj |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 away | advmod |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 witch | det |
| 19 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wood | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 witch | case |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 away | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hansel | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | get in a quote | infinitive | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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