The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 66

They were very hungry, too, for they had nothing to eat but a few berries they found growing on the ground.

Who acts: Hansel, few berries · What happens: be, have, eat, find, grow · To what, where: nothing, few berries, ground

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, few berries), 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	4 hungry	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 hungry	advmod
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 too	punct
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 hungry	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 had	case
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	conj
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 had	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 nothing	acl
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 berries	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 berries	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 berries	amod
17	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 nothing	conj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 berries	acl:relcl
20	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 found	xcomp
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 ground	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 growing	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hansel			hungry property	tree rules
2	have	past	Hansel	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	eat	to-infinitive	Hansel not said here	nothing not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	past	Hansel	a few berries not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent berry=Attribute clause=Theme
5	grow	gerund	a few berries not said here		the ground		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=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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