The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 38

And when the full moon had risen he took his sister by the hand and followed the pebbles, which shone like new threepenny bits, and showed them the path.

Who acts: moon, pebbles · What happens: rise, take, follow, shine, show · To what, where: full moon, sister, pebbles

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 (moon, pebbles), 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	_	9 took	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 risen	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moon	det
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moon	amod
5	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 risen	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 risen	aux
7	risen	rise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 took	advcl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sister	nmod:poss
11	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 hand	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hand	det
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 followed	cc
16	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pebbles	det
18	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 followed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shone	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 shone	nsubj
21	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 pebbles	acl:relcl
22	like	like	ADP	_	25 bits	case
23	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bits	amod
24	threepenny	threepenny	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bits	compound
25	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 shone	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 showed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 showed	cc
28	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 showed	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 path	det
31	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 showed	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	rise	past · perfect · passive		the full moon			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	take	past	moon		moon's sister	by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sister=Destination
3	follow	past	moon not said here	the pebbles			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme
4	shine	past	the pebbles			like new threepenny bits	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	show	past	moon not said here	pebbles = pebble			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient path=Topic

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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