The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 30

Hansel and Grettel sat down beside the fire, and at midday ate their little bits of bread.

Who acts: you, Grettel · What happens: hansel, sit down, eat · To what, where: fire, little bits, midday

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), 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 sat	cc
3	Grettel	Grettel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hansel	conj
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
6	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ate	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ate	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 midday	case
12	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ate	obl
13	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hansel	parataxis
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 bits	nmod:poss
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bits	amod
16	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ate	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 bread	case
18	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bits	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hansel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hansel	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	sit down	past	Grettel		the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside fire=Location
3	eat	past		Hansel's little bits of bread	midday	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=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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