The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 123

“Yes, and there’s no ferry-boat either,” answered Grettel; “but look, there swims a white duck; if I ask her she’ll help us over,” and she called out:

Who acts: Grettel, duck · What happens: answer, look, swim, ask, help over, call out · To what, where: white duck, duck, us · 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, duck), 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	_	14 answered	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 ’s	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ’s	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ’s	cc
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 ’s	expl
6	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 answered	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 boat	det
8	ferry	ferry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boat	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 ferry	punct
10	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ’s	obj
11	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 ’s	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ’s	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 ’s	punct
14	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Grettel	Grettel	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 answered	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 look	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 look	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 look	cc
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 answered	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 swims	punct
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 swims	expl
22	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 look	parataxis
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 duck	det
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 duck	amod
25	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 swims	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 help	punct
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 ask	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 ask	nsubj
29	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 help	advcl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ask	iobj
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 help	nsubj
32	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 help	aux
33	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 look	parataxis
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 help	obj
35	over	over	ADV	_	33 help	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 help	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 look	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 called	cc
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 called	nsubj
40	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 answered	conj
41	out	out	ADP	_	40 called	compound:prt
42	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Grettel					tree rules
2	look in a quote	infinitive						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	swim in a quote	present		a white duck		there		vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location duck=Theme
4	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Grettel		duck			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	help over in a quote	future	duck		us		over property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary
6	call out speech: assert	past	duck					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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