The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 91

When Hansel and Grettel fell into her hands she laughed maliciously, and said jeeringly: “I’ve got them now; they sha’n’t escape me.”

Who acts: Hansel, witch, I · What happens: fall, laugh, say, have, get, not escape · To what, where: hands, Hansel, me · 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 (Hansel, witch, I), 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	5 fell	advmod
2	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Grettel	cc
4	Grettel	Grettel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hansel	conj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laughed	advcl
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 hands	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fell	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laughed	nsubj
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	maliciously	maliciously	ADV	_	10 laughed	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laughed	parataxis
15	jeeringly	jeeringly	ADV	_	14 said	advmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 ’ve	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 ’ve	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 ’ve	nsubj
19	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
20	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ’ve	ccomp
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 got	obj
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 got	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 escape	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 escape	nsubj
25	sha’	sha'	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 escape	aux
26	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 escape	advmod
27	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 laughed	ccomp
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 escape	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 escape	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 escape	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Hansel and Grettel			into witch's hands result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result
2	laugh	past	witch			maliciously property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past				jeeringly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	have in a quote	present	I				tree rules
5	get in a quote	past	I not said here	Hansel	now		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
6	not escape in a quote		Hansel	me			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Initial_Location

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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