The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 5
They won’t be able to find their way home, and we shall thus be rid of them.”
Who acts: children, we · What happens: not be, find, be · To what, where: way
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, we), 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 | 5 able | nsubj |
| 2 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 able | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 able | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | cop |
| 5 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 able | xcomp |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 find | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rid | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rid | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 rid | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 rid | aux |
| 15 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 17 rid | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 rid | cop |
| 17 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 able | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rid | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 able | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | future | children = child | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | children = child not said here | children's way | home property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | shall | we | of children = child; rid, thus property | 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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