The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 86
After they had finished, two beautiful little white beds were prepared for them, and when Hansel and Grettel lay down in them they felt as if they had got into heaven.
Who acts: pancakes, Hansel · What happens: finish, prepare, lie down, feel, get · To what, where: two beautiful little white beds, heaven
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 (pancakes, Hansel), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 finished | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prepared | punct |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 beds | nummod |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beds | amod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beds | amod |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beds | amod |
| 10 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 prepared | aux:pass |
| 12 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 finished | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 prepared | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lay | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lay | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 lay | advmod |
| 18 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 lay | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Grettel | cc |
| 20 | Grettel | Grettel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Hansel | conj |
| 21 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 lay | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lay | obl |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 felt | nsubj |
| 26 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lay | advcl |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 got | mark |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 got | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 got | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 got | aux |
| 31 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 felt | advcl |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 heaven | case |
| 33 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 got | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | pancakes = pancake | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | prepare | past · passive | two beautiful little white beds | for pancakes = pancake | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | lie down | past | Hansel and Grettel | in pancakes = pancake; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in they=Location | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | pancakes = pancake | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | get | past · perfect | pancakes = pancake | heaven | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into heaven=Destination |
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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