The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 93

Then she seized Hansel with her bony hand and carried him into a little stable, and barred the door on him; he might scream as much as he liked, it did him no good.

Who acts: witch, Grettel, door · What happens: seize, carry, bar, scream, like, do · To what, where: Hansel, Grettel, little stable, door, much

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 (witch, Grettel, door), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 seized	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seized	nsubj
3	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 seized	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 hand	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hand	nmod:poss
7	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hand	amod
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seized	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 carried	cc
10	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carried	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 stable	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stable	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stable	amod
15	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carried	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 barred	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 barred	cc
18	barred	bar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 door	det
20	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 barred	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 barred	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 scream	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 scream	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 scream	aux
26	scream	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seized	conj
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 scream	obj
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 liked	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 liked	nsubj
31	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 much	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 did	punct
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 did	nsubj
34	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 did	obj
36	no	no	ADV	_	37 good	advmod
37	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 did	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past	witch	Hansel		then	with witch's bony hand	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hansel=Theme
2	carry	past	witch not said here	Grettel	a little stable			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	bar	past	witch not said here	the door			on Grettel	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer door=Theme
4	scream speech: express	might	Grettel	much				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Topic
5	like	past	Grettel					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	do	past	door	Grettel			good property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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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