The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 39
They walked on through the night, and at daybreak reached their father’s house again.
Who acts: pebbles · What happens: walk on, reach · To what, where: house, daybreak
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reached | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 reached | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 daybreak | case |
| 10 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obl |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | 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 | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 father | case |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 reached | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk on | past | pebbles = pebble | night | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | pebbles = pebble not said here | pebbles's father's house | daybreak | again | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent house=Theme at daybreak=Asset |
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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