The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 18

She gave them each a bit of bread and said: “There’s something for your luncheon, but don’t you eat it up before, for it’s all you’ll get.”

Who acts: woman, you · What happens: give, say, do, not eat up, get · To what, where: bit, children, luncheon · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, you), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 bit	det
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 bread	case
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 ’s	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 ’s	punct
13	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 ’s	expl
14	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 ’s	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 luncheon	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 luncheon	nmod:poss
18	luncheon	luncheon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 something	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 do	cc
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ’s	conj
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 eat	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 eat	nsubj
24	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 do	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 eat	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	24 eat	compound:prt
27	before	before	ADV	_	24 eat	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ’s	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 ’s	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 ’s	nsubj
31	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 do	advcl
32	all	all	ADV	_	35 get	advmod
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 get	nsubj
34	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 get	aux
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 ’s	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	woman	each bit of bread	children = child		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient bit=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	woman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	do in a quote	infinitive	woman not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not eat up in a quote	present	you	luncheon		before property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	get in a quote	future	you			all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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