The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 128

Then they set off to run, and bounding into the room fell on their father’s neck.

Who acts: birds, bounding · What happens: set off, run, bound, fall · To what, where: room, neck

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 (birds, bounding), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 set	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	to	to	PART	_	6 run	mark
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fell	cc
9	bounding	bound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 fell	csubj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 room	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 room	det
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bounding	obl
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 neck	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 neck	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 father	case
18	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	set off	past	birds = bird		then	tree rules
2	run	to-infinitive	birds = bird not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bound	gerund		the room		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination
4	fall	past	bounding	birds's father's neck		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on neck=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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