The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 74

Hansel stretched up his hand and broke off a little bit of the roof to see what it was like, and Grettel went to the casement and began to nibble at it.

Who acts: you, roof, Grettel · What happens: hansel up, stretch, break off, see, be, go · To what, where: hand, little bit, casement

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 (you, roof, Grettel), 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	Hansel	hansel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Hansel	xcomp
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hansel	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hansel	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 broke	cc
7	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hansel	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 broke	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bit	amod
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broke	obl:unmarked
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 roof	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 roof	det
14	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bit	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 broke	advcl
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 see	obj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 like	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 like	cop
20	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 what	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
23	Grettel	Grettel	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hansel	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 casement	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 casement	det
27	casement	casement	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 went	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 nibble	mark
31	nibble	nibble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 nibble	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Hansel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hansel up	imperative	you not said here	window's hand			tree rules
2	stretch	participle	you not said here				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	break off	past	you not said here	a little bit of the roof			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	see	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	is	past	roof			like property	tree rules
6	go	past	Grettel		the casement		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to casement=Initial_Location
7	begin	past	Grettel not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	nibble	to-infinitive	Grettel not said here			at roof	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient

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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