The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 54
“Hansel, what are you stopping and looking about you for?” said the father.
Who acts: you, father · What happens: hansel, stop, look, say · 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 (you, father), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hansel | punct |
| 2 | Hansel | hansel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopping | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 stopping | obj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stopping | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 stopping | nsubj |
| 7 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Hansel | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 looking | cc |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 stopping | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 looking | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 looking | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hansel | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hansel | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 father | det |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hansel in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | stop in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | gerund | you not said here | about you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | the father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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