The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 65
They wandered about the whole night, and the next day, from morning till evening, but they could not find a path out of the wood.
Who acts: Hansel · What happens: wander, not find · To what, where: path, wood
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 night | amod |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wandered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 day | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 day | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 day | amod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wandered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 morning | punct |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 morning | case |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wandered | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 evening | case |
| 16 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wandered | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 find | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 find | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 find | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 find | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 find | advmod |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wandered | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 path | det |
| 24 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 wood | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 wood | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wood | det |
| 28 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Hansel | day; evening; morning; night | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not find | could | Hansel | a path | the wood | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic |
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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