--- title: They followed it and came to a little house, on the roof of which it… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They followed it and came to a little house, on the roof of which it perched; and when they came quite near they saw that the cottage was made of bread and roofed with cakes, while the window was made of transparent sugar. Who acts: Hansel, song. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hansel, song), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:35:71 # text = They followed it and came to a little house, on the roof of which it perched; and when they came quite near they saw that the cottage was made of bread and roofed with cakes, while the window was made of transparent sugar. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 obl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 perched perch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 23 quite quite ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 near near ADP IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 ccomp _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 roofed roof VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 while while SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 transparent transparent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | past | Hansel | song | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | Hansel *not said here* | | | the roof | | to a little house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **perch** | past | song | | | | | of the roof | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come** | past | Hansel | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** | past | Hansel | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **make** | past · passive | | the cottage | | | | of bread | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 7 | **roof** | participle | | | | | | with cakes | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cake=Theme | | 8 | **make** | past · passive | | the window | | | | of transparent sugar | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/72/) - ↑ back to [Hansel and Grettel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/)