The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 127

The good bird did this, and when they were landed safely on the other side, and had gone for a while, the wood became more and more familiar to them, and at length they saw their father’s house in the distance.

Who acts: good bird, wood, birds · What happens: do, land, go, become, see · To what, where: this, birds, other side, house, length

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 (good bird, wood, birds), 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	3 bird	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 did	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 landed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 landed	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 landed	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 landed	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 landed	aux:pass
11	landed	land	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	conj
12	safely	safely	ADV	_	11 landed	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 side	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 side	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 side	amod
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 landed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gone	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gone	cc
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	aux
20	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 did	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 while	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 while	det
23	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gone	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 became	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wood	det
26	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 became	nsubj
27	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gone	parataxis
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 became	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 familiar	cc
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 familiar	advmod
31	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 became	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 familiar	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 saw	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 saw	cc
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 length	case
37	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 saw	obl
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 saw	nsubj
39	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 became	conj
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 father	nmod:poss
41	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 house	nmod:poss
42	’s	's	PART	_	41 father	case
43	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 saw	obj
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 distance	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 distance	det
46	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 saw	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the good bird	this				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
2	land	past · passive		birds = bird	the other side		safely property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on side=Destination
3	go	past · perfect	the good bird not said here			while		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past	the wood					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	see	past	birds = bird	birds's father's house	length		in the distance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=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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