Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 27

Then they set fire to them; and as the flame burnt up high, the wife said, "Now, you children, lie down near the fire, and rest yourselves, while we go into the forest and chop wood; when we are ready, I will come and call you."

Who acts: twigs, wife, we · What happens: set, burnt up, say, lie down, rest, go · To what, where: fire, pebbles, flame, yourselves, forest, you · 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 (twigs, wife, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 set	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 flame	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flame	det
11	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
12	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 flame	acl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 burnt	compound:prt
14	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 burnt	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flame	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wife	det
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Now	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Now	punct
21	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 said	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 you	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 said	ccomp
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 you	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lie	punct
26	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 lie	advmod
28	near	near	ADP	_	30 fire	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fire	det
30	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lie	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 rest	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 rest	cc
33	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 lie	parataxis
34	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 rest	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 go	punct
36	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 go	mark
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 go	nsubj
38	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 rest	conj
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 forest	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 forest	det
41	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 go	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 wood	cc
43	chop	chop	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 wood	compound
44	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 forest	conj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 ready	punct
46	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	49 ready	advmod
47	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 ready	nsubj
48	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 ready	cop
49	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 set	parataxis
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 come	punct
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 come	nsubj
52	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 come	aux
53	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 ready	parataxis
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 call	cc
55	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 come	conj
56	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 call	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	49 ready	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	49 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	twigs = twig	fire	pebbles = pebble		then		tree rules
2	burnt up	participle		the flame not said here				high property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the wife				now	as the flame	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	lie down in a quote	present				the fire		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near fire=Location
5	rest in a quote	infinitive		yourselves					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yourselves=Theme
6	go in a quote	present	we			the forest and chop wood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
7	is in a quote	present	we					ready property	tree rules
8	come in a quote	future	the wife = wife						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	call in a quote	infinitive	the wife = wife not said here		you				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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