Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 3

How can we feed our children, when we have no more than we can eat ourselves?"

Who acts: we · What happens: feed, have, eat · To what, where: children, more, ourselves

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 (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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 feed	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feed	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 feed	nsubj
4	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 children	nmod:poss
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 have	advmod
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feed	conj
11	no	no	ADV	_	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 have	obj
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 eat	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 eat	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	aux
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 more	advcl
17	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 eat	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 feed	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 feed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	feed	can	we		our children	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
2	have	present	we	more		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
3	eat	can	we	ourselves		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=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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