The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 96

Grettel began to cry bitterly, but it was of no use; she had to do what the wicked witch bade her.

Who acts: Grettel, fat, witch · What happens: begin, cry, be, have, do

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 (Grettel, fat, witch), 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	Grettel	Grettel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cry	mark
4	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	4 cry	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 use	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 use	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 use	cop
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 use	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 use	det
12	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	xcomp
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 do	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bade	det
20	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 bade	amod
21	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bade	compound
22	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 what	nsubj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 what	nsubj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Grettel		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Grettel not said here	bitterly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	fat	of no use	tree rules
4	have	past	witch		tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	witch not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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