The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 92

Early in the morning, before the children were awake, she rose up, and when she saw them both sleeping so peacefully, with their round rosy cheeks, she muttered to herself: “That’ll be a dainty bite.”

Who acts: children, witch, ’ll · What happens: be, rise up, see, sleep, mutter · To what, where: children, witch, dainty bite · 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 (children, witch, ’ll), 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	Early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 morning	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 morning	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 awake	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 awake	punct
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 awake	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 awake	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 awake	cop
10	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rose	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rose	nsubj
13	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 awake	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 rose	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saw	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 saw	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 awake	parataxis
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	obj
21	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	20 them	appos
22	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 saw	xcomp
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 peacefully	advmod
24	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	22 sleeping	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cheeks	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	30 cheeks	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 cheeks	nmod:poss
28	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cheeks	amod
29	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cheeks	amod
30	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sleeping	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 muttered	punct
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 muttered	nsubj
33	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saw	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 herself	case
35	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 muttered	obl
36	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 ’ll	punct
37	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 ’ll	punct
38	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 ’ll	det
39	’ll	'll	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bite	nsubj
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 bite	cop
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 bite	det
42	dainty	dainty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 bite	amod
43	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 muttered	ccomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 awake	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 awake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the children			morning	awake property	tree rules
2	rise up	past	witch					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	witch	children = child				tree rules
4	sleep	gerund	children = child not said here				with children's round rosy cheeks; peacefully property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mutter speech: assert	past	witch		witch			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
6	is a in a quote	infinitive	that ’ll	a dainty bite				tree rules

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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