The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 89
When anyone came into her power she killed, cooked, and ate him, and held a regular feast-day for the occasion.
Who acts: anyone, woman · What happens: come, kill, cook, eat, hold · To what, where: power, Grettel
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 (anyone, woman), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ate | advcl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 power | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 power | nmod:poss |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 killed | nsubj |
| 8 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 power | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cooked | punct |
| 10 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 came | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ate | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ate | cc |
| 13 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ate | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 held | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 held | cc |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ate | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 19 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 day | amod |
| 20 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 day | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 feast | punct |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 occasion | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 occasion | det |
| 25 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 day | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | anyone | woman's power | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into power=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | woman | woman's power not said here | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cook | participle | anyone not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | eat | past | Grettel | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 5 | hold | past | day | vn exist-47.1 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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