Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 2

He had little enough to break or bite; and once, when there was a great famine in the land, he could not procure even his daily bread; and as he lay thinking in his bed one evening, rolling about for trouble, he sighed, and said to his wife, "What will become of us?

Who acts: boy · What happens: have, break, bite, not be, lie, think · To what, where: little, bed, wife · 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 (boy), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	obj
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 little	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 break	mark
6	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 little	advcl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 bite	cc
8	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 break	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 once	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 once	cc
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 procure	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 was	advmod
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 procure	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 famine	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 famine	amod
18	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 was	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 land	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 land	det
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 famine	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 procure	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 procure	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 procure	advmod
26	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
27	even	even	ADV	_	30 bread	advmod
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bread	nmod:poss
29	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bread	amod
30	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 procure	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 sighed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 sighed	cc
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 lay	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lay	nsubj
35	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 sighed	advcl
36	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 lay	xcomp
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 bed	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 bed	nmod:poss
39	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 thinking	obl
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 evening	nummod
41	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 thinking	obl:unmarked
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 rolling	punct
43	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 thinking	advcl
44	about	about	ADV	_	43 rolling	advmod
45	for	for	ADP	_	46 trouble	case
46	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 rolling	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 lay	punct
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 sighed	nsubj
49	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 said	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 said	cc
52	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 sighed	conj
53	to	to	ADP	_	55 wife	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 wife	nmod:poss
55	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 said	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 become	punct
57	"	"	PUNCT	_	60 become	punct
58	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	60 become	nsubj
59	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 become	aux
60	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 said	conj
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 us	case
62	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	60 become	obl
63	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	boy	little					tree rules
2	break	to-infinitive	boy not said here						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	bite	infinitive	boy not said here						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	not is	could · past	boy					boy's daily bread obl; once, procure property	tree rules
5	lie	past	boy						tree rules
6	think speech: other	gerund	boy not said here			boy's bed	evening		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	roll about	gerund	boy not said here					for trouble; about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sigh	past	boy						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	say speech: ask	past	boy not said here		boy's wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
10	become in a quote	future						of us	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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: «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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