The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 85

She took them both by the hand and let them into the house, and laid a most sumptuous dinner before them--milk and sugared pancakes, with apples and nuts.

Who acts: ill · What happens: take, let, lay, sugar · To what, where: wings, house, sumptuous dinner, pancakes

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 (ill), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	both	both	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hand	det
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 laid	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 laid	cc
16	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dinner	det
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 sumptuous	advmod
19	sumptuous	sumptuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dinner	amod
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laid	obj
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 laid	obl
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 milk	punct
24	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laid	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sugared	cc
26	sugared	sugar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
27	pancakes	pancake	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sugared	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 apples	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 apples	case
30	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sugared	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 nuts	cc
32	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 apples	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	ill	wings = wing			by the hand; both property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	let	infinitive	ill not said here	wings = wing	the house			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	lay	past	ill not said here	a sumptuous dinner		before wings = wing	milk obl	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme before they=Destination
4	sugar	past	ill not said here	pancakes			with apples and nuts	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent pancake=Destination with apple=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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