The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 26

But Hansel had not looked back at his kitten, but had always dropped one of the white pebbles out of his pocket on to the path.

Who acts: Hansel · What happens: not look back, drop · To what, where: one

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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 looked	cc
2	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 looked	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 looked	advmod
5	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 looked	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 kitten	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 kitten	nmod:poss
9	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dropped	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 dropped	cc
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dropped	aux
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 dropped	advmod
14	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 looked	parataxis
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 dropped	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 pebbles	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pebbles	det
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pebbles	amod
19	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
20	out	out	ADP	_	23 pocket	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 pocket	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 pocket	nmod:poss
23	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pebbles	nmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 path	case
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 path	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 path	det
27	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pocket	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not look back	past · perfect	Hansel					at kitten's kitten	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at kitten=Theme
2	drop	past · perfect		one of the white pebbles out kitten's pocket on the path				always property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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