The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 64
“Never mind,” said Hansel to Grettel; “you’ll see we’ll find a way out”; but all the same they did not.
Who acts: Hansel, you, we · What happens: not mind, say, see, find, not do · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
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, you, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Grettel | case |
| 9 | Grettel | Grettel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Hansel | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 13 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 find | nsubj |
| 16 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | aux |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 see | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 find | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 way | advmod |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 same | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 same | cc |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 same | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 same | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | parataxis |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 did | nsubj |
| 28 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 same | parataxis |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 did | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hansel to Grettel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | future | we | a way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not do | past | Hansel | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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