The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 28
Hansel and Grettel heaped up brushwood till they had made a pile nearly the size of a small hill.
Who acts: you, Grettel, Hansel · What happens: hansel, heap up, make · To what, where: brushwood, pile
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 (you, 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 | Hansel | hansel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 heaped | cc |
| 3 | Grettel | Grettel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heaped | nsubj |
| 4 | heaped | heap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hansel | conj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 heaped | compound:prt |
| 6 | brushwood | brushwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heaped | obj |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 made | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 heaped | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pile | det |
| 12 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 15 size | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 size | det |
| 15 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hill | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hill | det |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hill | amod |
| 19 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 size | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hansel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hansel | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | heap up | past | Grettel | brushwood | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brushwood=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect | Hansel | a pile | the size of a small hill obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pile=Product |
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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