The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 50
But he consoled his little sister, and said: “Don’t cry, Grettel, and sleep peacefully, for God is sure to help us.”
Who acts: man, God · What happens: console, say, not cry, sleep, be, help · To what, where: little sister, Grettel, us · 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 (man, God), 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 | _ | 3 consoled | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 consoled | nsubj |
| 3 | consoled | console | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sister | amod |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consoled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consoled | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 cry | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 cry | punct |
| 12 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 cry | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 cry | advmod |
| 14 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Grettel | punct |
| 16 | Grettel | Grettel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cry | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sleep | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sleep | cc |
| 19 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cry | conj |
| 20 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 19 sleep | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sure | punct |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 sure | case |
| 23 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 sure | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 sure | cop |
| 25 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cry | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 help | mark |
| 27 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 sure | xcomp |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 help | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consoled | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 consoled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | console | past | man | man's little sister | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sister=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not cry speech: express in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Grettel | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grettel=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sleep in a quote | infinitive | peacefully property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | God | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | God not said here | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary |
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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