Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 17
Get up, you lazy things; we are going into the forest to chop wood."
Who acts: you, we · What happens: get up, thing, go, chop · To what, where: forest, wood
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 (you, we), 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 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Get | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 things | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 things | nsubj |
| 5 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Get | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 going | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 going | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Get | parataxis |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 going | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 chop | mark |
| 15 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 going | advcl |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chop | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | thing | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | we | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | chop | to-infinitive | we not said here | wood | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=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: «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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