The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 33
And when they had sat for a long time their eyes closed with fatigue, and they fell fast asleep.
Who acts: Hansel, eyes · What happens: sit, close, fall · To what, where: long time
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, eyes), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sat | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 sat | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | aux |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 closed | nsubj |
| 12 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 fatigue | case |
| 14 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 closed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fell | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 fell | advmod |
| 20 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fell | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · perfect | Hansel | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | close | participle | Hansel's eyes | a long time not said here | with fatigue | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent time=Destination with fatigue=Theme | |||
| 3 | fall | past | Hansel | asleep, fast property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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