The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 31
They heard the strokes of the axe, so they thought their father was quite near.
Who acts: Hansel, father · What happens: hear, think, be, stroke · To what, where: strokes, axe · 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 (Hansel, father), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 strokes | det |
| 4 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 axe | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 axe | det |
| 7 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strokes | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 thought | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 near | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 near | cop |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 near | advmod |
| 16 | near | near | ADV | _ | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Hansel | the strokes of the axe | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer stroke=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Hansel | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Hansel's father | near property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stroke | the axe | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=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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