The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 56

“Fool!” said the wife; “that isn’t your pigeon, it’s the morning sun glittering on the chimney.”

Who acts: wife, that, pigeon, morning sun · What happens: say, not be, be, glitter · To what, where: pigeon, morning sun, chimney · 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 (wife, that, pigeon, morning sun), 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 Fool	punct
2	Fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Fool	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Fool	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 pigeon	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 pigeon	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 pigeon	cop
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 pigeon	advmod
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 pigeon	nmod:poss
14	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sun	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sun	nsubj
17	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sun	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sun	compound
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pigeon	conj
21	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 sun	acl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 chimney	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 chimney	det
24	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 glittering	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 pigeon	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 pigeon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not is a in a quote	present	that	your pigeon and the morning sun		tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	pigeon	the morning sun		tree rules
4	glitter in a quote	gerund	the morning sun not said here		the chimney	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chimney=Location

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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