The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 122
“We can’t get over,” said Hansel; “I see no bridge of any sort or kind.”
Who acts: We, Hansel · What happens: not get over, say, see · To what, where: bridge · 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 (We, 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 | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | 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 | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 bridge | det |
| 16 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sort | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 sort | det |
| 19 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bridge | nmod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 kind | cc |
| 21 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sort | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get over in a quote | can | We | over property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hansel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | Hansel | no bridge of any sort or kind | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bridge=Stimulus |
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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