The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 130

Grettel shook out her apron so that the pearls and precious stones rolled about the room, and Hansel threw down one handful after the other out of his pocket.

Who acts: Grettel, Hansel · What happens: shake out, roll, throw down · To what, where: apron, precious stones, one handful, pocket

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, Hansel), 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	Grettel	Grettel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 shook	nsubj
2	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 shook	compound:prt
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 apron	nmod:poss
5	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shook	obj
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 pearls	case
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 so	fixed
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pearls	det
9	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shook	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stones	cc
11	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stones	amod
12	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pearls	conj
13	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 stones	acl
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rolled	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 threw	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 threw	cc
19	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 threw	nsubj
20	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shook	parataxis
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 threw	compound:prt
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 handful	nummod
23	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 threw	obj
24	after	after	ADP	_	26 other	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 other	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 threw	obl
27	out	out	ADP	_	30 pocket	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 pocket	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 pocket	nmod:poss
30	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 threw	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake out	past	Grettel	woman's apron			so the pearls and precious stones	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent apron=Patient
2	roll	participle		precious stones not said here			about the room	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about room=Trajectory
3	throw down	past	Hansel	one handful	Grettel's pocket	after the other		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent handful=Theme out pocket=Initial_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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