The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 22
His father observed him, and said: “Hansel, what are you gazing at there, and why do you always remain behind?
Who acts: father, you · What happens: observe, say, hansel, gaze, remain · To what, where: maneuver · 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 (father, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 observed | nsubj |
| 3 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 observed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 observed | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Hansel | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Hansel | punct |
| 10 | Hansel | hansel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gazing | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 gazing | obj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 gazing | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 gazing | nsubj |
| 15 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 Hansel | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 there | case |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 gazing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 remain | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 remain | cc |
| 20 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 remain | advmod |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 remain | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 remain | nsubj |
| 23 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 24 remain | advmod |
| 24 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 observed | conj |
| 25 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 remain | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | maneuver's father | maneuver | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | maneuver's father not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hansel in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | gaze in a quote | present · progressive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | remain in a quote | present · do-support | you | always property | vn exist-47.1 «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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