The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 58
The woman led the children still deeper into the forest farther than they had ever been in their lives before.
Who acts: woman, children · What happens: lead, be · To what, where: children
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 (woman, children), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 children | det |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 led | obj |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 deeper | advmod |
| 7 | deeper | deep | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 led | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deeper | obl |
| 11 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 before | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 lives | case |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lives | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lives | aux |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 lives | advmod |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 lives | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 lives | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lives | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 farther | obl |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 deeper | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the woman | the children | deep property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | children = child | ever | than children's lives | 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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