The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 126
“No,” answered Grettel, “we should be too heavy a load for the duck: she shall carry us across separately.”
Who acts: Grettel, we, duck · What happens: answer, be, carry · To what, where: 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, we, 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Grettel | Grettel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heavy | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 heavy | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 heavy | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 heavy | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 heavy | cop |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 heavy | advmod |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answered | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 load | det |
| 15 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heavy | nsubj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 duck | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 duck | det |
| 18 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heavy | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 carry | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 carry | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 carry | aux |
| 22 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 carry | obj |
| 24 | across | across | ADP | _ | 25 separately | case |
| 25 | separately | separately | ADV | _ | 22 carry | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 carry | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Grettel | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | should | we | for the duck; heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry in a quote | shall | duck | us | vn carry-11.4 «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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