The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 7
The wild beasts would soon come and tear them to pieces.”
Who acts: wild beasts · What happens: come, tear · To what, where: beasts
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 (wild beasts), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beasts | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beasts | amod |
| 3 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 come | advmod |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tear | cc |
| 8 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tear | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 pieces | case |
| 11 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tear | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | would | the wild beasts | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tear | infinitive | the wild beasts not said here | beasts = beast | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient to piece=Result |
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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