The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 57

But Hansel gradually threw all his crumbs on the path.

Who acts: you · What happens: hansel, throw · To what, where: crumbs, path

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), 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	_	2 Hansel	cc
2	Hansel	hansel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	4 threw	advmod
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Hansel	ccomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 crumbs	det:predet
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 crumbs	nmod:poss
7	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 threw	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 path	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 path	det
10	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Hansel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hansel	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	throw	past	you not said here	man's crumbs		the path		gradually property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme on path=Destination

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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