The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 67

And at last they were so tired that their legs refused to carry them any longer, so they lay down under a tree and fell fast asleep.

Who acts: Hansel, legs · What happens: be, refuse, not carry, lay down, fall · To what, where: last, Hansel, tree

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, legs), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 tired	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tired	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tired	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 tired	advmod
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 refused	mark
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 legs	nmod:poss
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 refused	nsubj
11	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 carry	mark
13	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 refused	xcomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carry	obj
15	any	any	ADV	_	16 longer	advmod
16	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 carry	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lay	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 lay	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lay	nsubj
20	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	parataxis
21	down	down	ADV	_	20 lay	advmod
22	under	under	ADP	_	24 tree	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tree	det
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fell	cc
26	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lay	conj
27	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 fell	advmod
28	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fell	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hansel		last	tired property	tree rules
2	refuse	past	Hansel's legs				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not carry	to-infinitive	Hansel's legs not said here	Hansel		long property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	lay down	present	Hansel		a tree	down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under tree=Destination
5	fall	past	Hansel not said here			asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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