The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 82

Hansel and Grettel were so terrified that they let what they had in their hands fall.

Who acts: Hansel · What happens: be, let, have, fall · To what, where: hands

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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:2756): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 terrified	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Grettel	cc
3	Grettel	Grettel	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hansel	conj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 terrified	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 terrified	advmod
6	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 let	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	nsubj
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 terrified	advcl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 let	obj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 what	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hands	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hands	nmod:poss
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obl
16	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hansel and Grettel		terrified property	tree rules
2	let	past	Hansel			tree rules
3	have	past	Hansel	Hansel's hands		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fall	infinitive	Hansel not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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