The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 71

They followed it and came to a little house, on the roof of which it perched; and when they came quite near they saw that the cottage was made of bread and roofed with cakes, while the window was made of transparent sugar.

Who acts: Hansel, song · What happens: follow, come, perch, see, make, roof · To what, where: song, roof, cottage, window · 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, song), 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 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 came	cc
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 followed	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 house	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 house	amod
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 roof	punct
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 roof	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 roof	det
13	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 perched	obl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 perched	nsubj
17	perched	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 roof	acl:relcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 saw	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 came	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 saw	advcl
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	near	near	ADP	_	26 saw	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 followed	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 made	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cottage	det
29	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 made	aux:pass
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 saw	ccomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 bread	case
33	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 roofed	cc
35	roofed	roof	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 made	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 cakes	case
37	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 roofed	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 made	punct
39	while	while	SCONJ	_	43 made	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 window	det
41	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 made	nsubj:pass
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 made	aux:pass
43	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 made	conj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 sugar	case
45	transparent	transparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 sugar	amod
46	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 made	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	past	Hansel	song			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	come	past	Hansel not said here		the roof	to a little house	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
3	perch	past	song			of the roof	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	Hansel				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	past	Hansel				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	make	past · passive		the cottage		of bread	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
7	roof	participle				with cakes	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cake=Theme
8	make	past · passive		the window		of transparent sugar	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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