Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 30

When they awoke, it was quite dark, and Grethel began to cry, "How shall we get out of the wood?"

Who acts: wife, weariness, Grethel, we · What happens: awake, be, begin, cry, get out · To what, where: wood · 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 (wife, weariness, Grethel, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 awoke	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 awoke	nsubj
3	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dark	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 awoke	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dark	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dark	cop
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 dark	advmod
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
11	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dark	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cry	mark
14	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 get	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 get	punct
17	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 get	advmod
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 get	aux
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 get	nsubj
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cry	advcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 wood	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 wood	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wood	det
24	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 dark	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	awake	past	wife			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	weariness		dark property	tree rules
3	begin	past	Grethel			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Grethel not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	get out in a quote	shall	we	the wood		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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