The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 76
“Nibble, nibble, little mouse, Who’s nibbling my house?”
Who acts: Nibble · What happens: nibble · To what, where: house
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 (Nibble), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nibble | punct |
| 2 | Nibble | nibble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nibble | punct |
| 4 | nibble | nibble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Nibble | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mouse | punct |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mouse | amod |
| 7 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Nibble | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nibbling | punct |
| 9 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 nibbling | nsubj |
| 10 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 nibbling | aux |
| 11 | nibbling | nibble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Nibble | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nibbling | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nibble | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nibble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nibble in a quote | present · progressive | Nibble and nibble and little mouse | my house | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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