The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 63

When the moon appeared they got up, but they found no crumbs, for the thousands of birds that fly about the woods and fields had picked them all up.

Who acts: moon, Hansel, birds · What happens: appear, get up, find, fly, pick up · To what, where: crumbs, thousands

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 (moon, Hansel, birds), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 appeared	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moon	det
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	nsubj
4	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 appeared	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 got	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 appeared	parataxis
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 crumbs	det
13	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 found	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thousands	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 thousands	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thousands	det
17	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 picked	nsubj:pass
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 birds	case
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 thousands	nmod
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 fly	nsubj
21	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 birds	acl:relcl
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 woods	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 woods	det
24	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fly	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fields	cc
26	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 woods	conj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 picked	aux
28	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 found	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 picked	obj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 them	nmod:unmarked
31	up	up	ADV	_	28 picked	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the moon			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	get up	past	Hansel			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	find	past	Hansel	no crumbs		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Topic
4	fly	present	birds		about the woods and fields	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about wood=Location
5	pick up	past · perfect · passive		the thousands of birds		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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