The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 83
But the old woman shook her head and said: “Oh, ho! you dear children, who led you here?
Who acts: old woman, you, dear children · What happens: shake, say, child, lead · To what, where: head, you · 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 (old woman, you, dear children), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 shook | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shook | nsubj |
| 5 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shook | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shook | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 children | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 children | punct |
| 12 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 18 children | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Oh | punct |
| 14 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Oh | vocative |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Oh | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 children | nsubj |
| 17 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 children | amod |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 led | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 led | nsubj |
| 21 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 children | acl:relcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 led | obj |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 led | advmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the old woman | woman's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the old woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | child in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | lead in a quote | past | dear children | you | here | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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