The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 121
When they had wandered about for some hours they came to a big lake.
Who acts: Hansel · What happens: wander, come · To what, where: hours
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 wandered | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandered | aux |
| 4 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 wandered | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 hours | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 hours | det |
| 8 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wandered | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hours | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 lake | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lake | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lake | amod |
| 14 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past · perfect | Hansel | hour | about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | Hansel | some hours not said here | to a big lake | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hour=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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