Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 25

When they came to the middle of the forest, the father told the children to collect wood, and he would make them a fire, so that they should not be cold.

Who acts: pebbles, father · What happens: come, tell, collect, make, not be · To what, where: middle, children, wood, pebbles · 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 (pebbles, father), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 middle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 middle	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 father	det
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 children	det
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 told	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 collect	mark
17	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 children	acl
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 collect	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 make	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 make	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 make	aux
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	ccomp
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	obj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fire	det
26	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cold	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 cold	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 cold	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 cold	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 cold	advmod
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 cold	cop
34	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 make	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	pebbles = pebble			the middle of the forest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to middle=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	the father		the children			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
3	collect	to-infinitive	the father not said here	wood				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
4	make	would	father	pebbles = pebble				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary fire=Product
5	not is	should	pebbles = pebble				cold 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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