The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 13
And when the old people had fallen asleep he got up, slipped on his little coat, opened the back door and stole out.
Who acts: old people, Grettel · What happens: fall, get up, slip, open, steal out · To what, where: little coat, back door
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 (old people, Grettel), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 fallen | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fallen | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fallen | aux |
| 7 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 got | advcl |
| 8 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fallen | xcomp |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 got | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slipped | punct |
| 13 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 coat | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 coat | nmod:poss |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 coat | amod |
| 17 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slipped | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 opened | punct |
| 19 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 slipped | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 21 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 door | compound |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 opened | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stole | cc |
| 24 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 opened | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 stole | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | the old people | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get up | past | Grettel | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | slip | past | Grettel not said here | Grettel's little coat | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | open | past | the back door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||||
| 5 | steal out | past | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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