The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 49
When the old people were asleep Hansel got up, and wanted to go out and pick up pebbles again, as he had done the first time; but the woman had barred the door, and Hansel couldn’t get out.
Who acts: old people, asleep Hansel, man, Hansel · What happens: be, get up, want, go out, pick up, do · To what, where: pebbles, woman
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 (old people, asleep Hansel, man, Hansel), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 asleep | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 asleep | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asleep | cop |
| 6 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Hansel | amod |
| 7 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 got | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wanted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wanted | cc |
| 12 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wanted | xcomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pick | cc |
| 17 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 pick | compound:prt |
| 19 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pick | obj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 pick | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 done | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 done | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 done | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 done | aux |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 pick | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 27 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 time | amod |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 done | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 barred | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 barred | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 woman | det |
| 32 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 barred | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 barred | aux |
| 34 | barred | bar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 got | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 door | det |
| 36 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 barred | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 get | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 get | cc |
| 39 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 get | nsubj |
| 40 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 get | aux |
| 41 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 get | advmod |
| 42 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 barred | conj |
| 43 | out | out | ADV | _ | 42 get | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the old people | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get up | past | asleep Hansel | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | want | past | asleep Hansel not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | asleep Hansel not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | pick up | infinitive | asleep Hansel not said here | pebbles | again | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Topic | |||
| 6 | do | past · perfect | man | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | bar | past · perfect · passive | the woman | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | not get out | could | Hansel | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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