The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 129

The man had not passed a happy hour since he left them in the wood, but the woman had died.

Who acts: man, woman · What happens: not pass, leave, die · To what, where: birds, wood

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 (man, woman), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 passed	advmod
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hour	det
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hour	amod
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	obj
9	since	since	SCONJ	_	11 left	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	nsubj
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 wood	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 died	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 died	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 woman	det
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 died	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 died	aux
21	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 passed	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	not pass	past · perfect	the man			hour	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	past	man	birds = bird	the wood		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in wood=Location
3	die	past · perfect	the woman				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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