The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 32

But it was no axe they heard, but a bough he had tied on a dead tree, and that was blown about by the wind.

Who acts: axe, Hansel, father, wind · What happens: be, hear, tie, blow · To what, where: axe, bough, that

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 (axe, Hansel, father, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:2721): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 axe	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 axe	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 axe	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 axe	det
5	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 axe	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bough	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 bough	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bough	det
11	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 axe	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tied	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tied	aux
14	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 bough	acl:relcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 tree	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tree	amod
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tied	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 blown	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 blown	cc
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 blown	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 blown	aux:pass
23	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 tied	conj
24	about	about	ADV	_	23 blown	advmod
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 wind	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wind	det
27	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blown	obl:agent
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 axe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	axe	no axe but a bough		tree rules
2	hear	past	Hansel	no axe but a bough not said here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer axe=Stimulus
3	tie	past · perfect	father	a bough not said here	on a dead tree	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bough=Patient on tree=Co-Patient
4	blow	past · passive	the wind	that	about property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent subject=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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