The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 124

“Here are two children, mournful very, Seeing neither bridge nor ferry; Take us upon your white back, And row us over, quack, quack!”

Who acts: two children · What happens: be, see, take, row over · To what, where: bridge, us

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 (two children), 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	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 mournful	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 children	nummod
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Here	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mournful	punct
7	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	very	very	ADV	_	7 mournful	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Seeing	punct
10	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 mournful	advcl
11	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	12 bridge	det
12	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Seeing	obj
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 ferry	cc
14	ferry	ferry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bridge	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 Take	punct
16	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 mournful	parataxis
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 Take	obj
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 back	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 back	nmod:poss
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 back	amod
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Take	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 row	punct
23	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 row	cc
24	row	row	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 Take	conj
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 row	obj
26	over	over	ADV	_	24 row	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 quack	punct
28	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 row	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 quack	punct
30	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 quack	conj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 mournful	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 mournful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	two children			here property	tree rules
2	see in a quote	gerund		neither bridge nor ferry			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bridge=Stimulus
3	take in a quote	infinitive			us	upon your white back	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination
4	row over in a quote	infinitive		us		quack and quack obl; over property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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