The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 15
Hansel bent down and filled his pocket with as many of them as he could cram in.
Who acts: you, Grettel · What happens: hansel down, bend down, fill, cram in · To what, where: 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 (you, 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 | Hansel | hansel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Hansel | xcomp |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 1 Hansel | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 filled | cc |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hansel | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 7 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obj | ||
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 many | case |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 many | advmod |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 filled | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 many | nmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 cram | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cram | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 cram | aux |
| 16 | cram | cram | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 filled | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 cram | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hansel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hansel down | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bend down | participle | you not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fill | past | you not said here | Grettel's pocket | with many of pebbles | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with many=Instrument | |||
| 4 | cram in | could | Grettel | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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