The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 24

“Oh! father,” said Hansel, “I am looking back at my white kitten, which is sitting on the roof, waving me a farewell.”

Who acts: father, white kitten · What happens: say, look back, sit, wave · To what, where: roof, father · 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, white kitten), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 father	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 looking	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 looking	aux
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 looking	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 kitten	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 kitten	nmod:poss
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kitten	amod
18	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sitting	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 sitting	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sitting	aux
22	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 kitten	acl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 roof	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 roof	det
25	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sitting	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 waving	punct
27	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 looking	advcl
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 waving	obj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 farewell	det
30	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 waving	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	look back in a quote	present · progressive	father			at my white kitten	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at kitten=Theme
3	sit in a quote	present · progressive	my white kitten		the roof		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location
4	wave in a quote	gerund	father not said here	father			tree rules

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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