The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 55
“I’m looking back at my little pigeon, which is sitting on the roof waving me a farewell,” answered Hansel.
Who acts: Hansel, little pigeon · What happens: look back, sit, wave, answer · To what, where: roof, Hansel · 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 (Hansel, little pigeon), 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 | _ | 4 looking | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 looking | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 looking | aux |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 looking | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 pigeon | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pigeon | nmod:poss |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pigeon | amod |
| 9 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sitting | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sitting | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sitting | aux |
| 13 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 pigeon | acl:relcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 roof | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 roof | det |
| 16 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sitting | obl |
| 17 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 sitting | advcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 waving | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 farewell | det |
| 20 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 waving | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
| 23 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 answered | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back in a quote | present · progressive | Hansel | at my little pigeon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pigeon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | present · progressive | my little pigeon | the roof | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location | ||||
| 3 | wave in a quote | gerund | my little pigeon not said here | Hansel | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | Hansel | 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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