The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 45

The man’s heart smote him heavily, and he thought: “Surely it would be better to share the last bite with one’s children!”

Who acts: heart, it · What happens: smite, think, be, share · To what, where: man, last bite · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (heart, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heart	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 man	case
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smote	nsubj
5	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smote	obj
7	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	5 smote	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smote	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 better	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 better	punct
14	Surely	surely	ADV	_	18 better	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 better	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 better	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 better	cop
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 thought	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 share	mark
20	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 better	csubj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bite	det
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bite	amod
23	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 share	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 children	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 children	nummod
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 one	case
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 share	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 better	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 smote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smite	past	the man's heart	man	heavily property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	think speech: other	past	heart			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	would	it		good, surely property	tree rules
4	share in a quote	to-infinitive		the last bite	with one children	tree rules

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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