The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 41

But the father rejoiced, for his conscience had reproached him for leaving his children behind by themselves.

Who acts: father · What happens: rejoice, reproach, leave · To what, where: conscience, children

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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 rejoiced	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 father	det
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rejoiced	nsubj
4	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reproached	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 reproached	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 conscience	nmod:poss
8	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reproached	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 reproached	aux
10	reproached	reproach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rejoiced	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 reproached	obj
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 leaving	mark
13	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 reproached	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 children	nmod:poss
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 leaving	obj
16	behind	behind	ADV	_	13 leaving	advmod
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 themselves	case
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 leaving	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rejoiced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rejoice	past	the father			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	reproach	past · perfect · passive		father's conscience		tree rules
3	leave	gerund		father's children	by children = child; behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme by themselves=Location

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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