The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 60
At midday Grettel divided her bread with Hansel, for he had strewn his all along their path.
Who acts: Grettel · What happens: divide, strewn · To what, where: bread, midday, 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 (Grettel), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 midday | case |
| 2 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 divided | obl |
| 3 | Grettel | Grettel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 divided | nsubj |
| 4 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bread | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 divided | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Hansel | case |
| 8 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 divided | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 strewn | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 strewn | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 strewn | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 strewn | aux |
| 13 | strewn | strewn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 divided | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 path | nmod:poss |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 path | advmod |
| 16 | along | along | ADP | _ | 18 path | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 path | nmod:poss |
| 18 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strewn | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past | Grettel | mother's bread | midday | with Hansel | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bread=Patient with hansel=Instrument | ||
| 2 | strewn | past · perfect | Grettel | Grettel's path | 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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