The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 61

Then they fell asleep, and evening passed away, but nobody came to the poor children.

Who acts: Hansel, nobody · What happens: fall, pass away, come

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, nobody), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 fell	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fell	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 passed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 passed	cc
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 passed	obl:unmarked
8	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fell	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 passed	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 children	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 children	det
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 children	amod
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Hansel	then	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass away	participle	Hansel not said here	evening	away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	come	past	nobody		to the poor children	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to child=Initial_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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