Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 108

He had not had one happy hour since he had left the children in the forest; and his wife was dead.

Who acts: father, wife · What happens: not have, leave, be · To what, where: children, forest

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, wife), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hour	nummod
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hour	amod
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	since	since	SCONJ	_	11 left	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 left	aux
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 had	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 children	det
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 left	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 dead	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dead	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dead	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dead	cop
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past · perfect	father			hour		tree rules
2	leave	past · perfect	father	the children	the forest			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme in forest=Location
3	is	past	father's wife				dead property	tree rules

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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