Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 18

Then she gave them each a piece of bread, saying, "There is something for your dinner; do not eat it before the time, for you will get nothing else."

Who acts: sun, something, you · What happens: give, say, be, not eat, get · To what, where: piece, wood, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sun, something, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 gave	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 piece	det
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 piece	det
7	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 bread	case
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 piece	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saying	punct
11	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 gave	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
14	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 is	expl
15	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 saying	ccomp
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 is	nsubj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 dinner	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 dinner	nmod:poss
19	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 something	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 eat	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 eat	advmod
23	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 eat	obj
25	before	before	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eat	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 get	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 get	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 get	aux
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 eat	parataxis
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 get	obj
34	else	else	ADV	_	33 nothing	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	give	past	sun	each piece of bread	wood		then	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient piece=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	sun not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be in a quote	present	something			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not eat in a quote	infinitive · do-support	sun not said here	piece			time	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	get in a quote	future	you	nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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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