The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 125

The duck swam toward them, and Hansel got on her back and bade his little sister sit beside him.

Who acts: duck, Hansel, little sister · What happens: swim, get, sit · To what, where: back

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 (duck, Hansel, little sister), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swam	nsubj
3	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	toward	toward	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swam	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
8	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swam	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 back	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 back	nmod:poss
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bade	cc
14	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 back	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sister	nmod:poss
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sister	amod
17	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sit	nsubj
18	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 got	parataxis
19	beside	beside	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sit	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	swim	past	the duck		toward quack	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward they=Trajectory
2	get	past	Hansel	duck's back and bade		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source
3	sit	infinitive	bade's little sister		beside bade	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location

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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