The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 94
Then she went to Grettel, shook her till she awoke, and cried: “Get up, you lazy-bones, fetch water and cook something for your brother.
Who acts: witch, you · What happens: go, shake, awake, cry, get up, bone · To what, where: Grettel, witch, water, something · 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 (witch, you), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Grettel | case |
| 5 | Grettel | Grettel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shook | punct |
| 7 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shook | obj |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 awoke | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 awoke | nsubj |
| 11 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shook | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Get | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Get | punct |
| 17 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cried | ccomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 Get | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bones | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 bones | nsubj |
| 21 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bones | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 lazy | punct |
| 23 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Get | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fetch | punct |
| 25 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 Get | conj |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fetch | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 cook | cc |
| 28 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Get | conj |
| 29 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 cook | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 brother | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 brother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cook | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | witch | Grettel | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grettel=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | shake | past | witch not said here | witch | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | awake | past | witch | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | witch not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | get up in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | bone in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | fetch in a quote | infinitive | water | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||||
| 8 | cook in a quote | infinitive | something | for your brother | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent something=Material for brother=Beneficiary |
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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