The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 99

But Hansel always stretched out a bone, and the old dame, whose eyes were dim, couldn’t see it, and thinking always it was Hansel’s finger, wondered why he fattened so slowly.

Who acts: you, old dame, dame, Grettel · What happens: hansel, stretch out, be, not see, think, wonder · To what, where: bone, dame, 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 (you, old dame, dame, Grettel), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 Hansel	cc
2	Hansel	hansel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 stretched	advmod
4	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Hansel	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 stretched	compound:prt
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bone	det
7	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stretched	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dim	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dim	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dame	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dame	amod
12	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dim	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eyes	punct
14	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	15 eyes	nmod:poss
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dame	conj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 dim	cop
17	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Hansel	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 see	aux
20	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 see	advmod
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 dim	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 see	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wondered	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 wondered	cc
25	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 wondered	advcl
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	25 thinking	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 finger	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 finger	cop
29	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 finger	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Hansel	case
31	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thinking	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thinking	punct
33	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Hansel	conj
34	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	36 fattened	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fattened	nsubj
36	fattened	fatten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 wondered	advcl
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 slowly	advmod
38	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	36 fattened	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Hansel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hansel	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	stretch out	participle	you not said here	a bone	always property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
3	is	past	the old dame and the old dame and the old dame's eyes's eyes		dim property	tree rules
4	not see	could	the old dame and the old dame and the old dame's eyes's eyes not said here	dame		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	think speech: other	gerund			always property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	dame	Hansel's finger		tree rules
7	wonder speech: ask	past	you not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	fatten	past	Grettel		slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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