The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 79

and went on eating, without putting themselves about.

What happens: go, eat, put · To what, where: children

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: 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	_	2 went	cc
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 eating	mark
4	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 putting	punct
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 putting	mark
7	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 eating	conj
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 putting	obj
9	about	about	ADV	_	7 putting	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	gerund			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	put	gerund	children = child	about property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Goal

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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