The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 48
But the children were awake, and had heard the conversation.
Who acts: children · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: conversation
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 (children), 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 | _ | 5 awake | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 awake | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awake | cop |
| 5 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 awake | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 conversation | det |
| 11 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the children | awake property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · perfect | the children not said here | the conversation | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer conversation=Stimulus |
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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