The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 90

Now witches have red eyes, and cannot see far, but, like beasts, they have a keen sense of smell, and know when human beings pass by.

Who acts: witches, eyes, human beings · What happens: have, not see, know, pass by, sense · To what, where: red eyes, keen sense, smell · 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 (witches, eyes, human beings), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 have	advmod
2	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 eyes	amod
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 see	cc
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 see	advmod
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 see	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 but	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	16 beasts	case
16	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 have	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 beasts	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 sense	det
21	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sense	amod
22	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 smell	case
24	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sense	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 know	cc
27	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 pass	advmod
29	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 beings	amod
30	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pass	nsubj
31	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 know	ccomp
32	by	by	ADP	_	31 pass	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	witches	red eyes	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	not see	can	witches not said here			far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	have	present	eyes = eye	a keen sense of smell		like beasts	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient
4	know	present					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	pass by	present	human beings				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sense			smell			nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=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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