The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 19

Grettel took the bread under her apron, as Hansel had the stones in his pocket.

Who acts: Grettel, Hansel · What happens: take, have · To what, where: bread, apron, stones, 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bread	det
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 apron	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 apron	nmod:poss
7	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stones	det
13	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 pocket	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pocket	nmod:poss
16	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Grettel	the bread		woman's apron			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
2	have	past	Hansel	the stones		Grettel's pocket			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient

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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