The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 98

Every morning the old woman hobbled out to the stable and cried: “Hansel, put out your finger, that I may feel if you are getting fat.”

Who acts: old woman, you · What happens: hobble out, cry, hansel, put out, feel, get · To what, where: stable, finger · 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 (old woman, 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hobbled	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hobbled	nsubj
6	hobbled	hobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 hobbled	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 stable	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stable	det
10	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hobbled	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cried	cc
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hobbled	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Hansel	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Hansel	punct
15	Hansel	hansel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cried	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
17	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Hansel	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 put	compound:prt
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 finger	nmod:poss
20	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 feel	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 feel	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 feel	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 feel	aux
25	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Hansel	conj
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 getting	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 getting	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 getting	aux
29	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 feel	advcl
30	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 getting	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 Hansel	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 Hansel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hobble out	past	the old woman		the stable	morning		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to stable=Destination
2	cry speech: express	past	the old woman not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hansel in a quote	infinitive						tree rules
4	put out in a quote	infinitive		your finger				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal
5	feel in a quote	may	the old woman = woman					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	get a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · progressive	you				fat property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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