The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 88

The old woman had appeared to be most friendly, but she was really an old witch who had waylaid the children, and had only built the little bread house in order to lure them in.

Who acts: old woman, woman, old witch · What happens: appear, be, waylay, build, lure in · To what, where: old witch, children, little bread house, order

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, woman, old witch), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appeared	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 appeared	aux
5	appeared	appear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	9 friendly	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 friendly	cop
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 friendly	advmod
9	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 appeared	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 witch	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 witch	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 witch	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 witch	cop
14	really	really	ADV	_	17 witch	advmod
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 witch	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 witch	amod
17	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 appeared	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 waylaid	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 waylaid	aux
20	waylaid	waylay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 witch	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 children	det
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 waylaid	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 built	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 built	cc
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 built	aux
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 built	advmod
27	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 appeared	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 house	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 house	amod
30	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 house	compound
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 built	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 order	case
33	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 house	nmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 lure	mark
35	lure	lure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 built	advcl
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lure	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	35 lure	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past · perfect	the old woman				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here			friendly property	tree rules
3	is a	past	woman	a old witch			tree rules
4	waylay	past · perfect	a old witch	the children			tree rules
5	build	past · perfect	the old woman not said here	the little bread house	order		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product
6	lure in	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	children = child			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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