Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 37

Not long afterward there was again great scarcity in every corner of the land; and one night the children overheard their stepmother saying to their father, "Everything is again consumed; we have only half a loaf left, and then the song is ended: the children must be sent away.

Who acts: children, stepmother · What happens: be, overhear, say, consume, leave, end · To what, where: long great scarcity, corner, stepmother, Everything, children · 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 (children, stepmother), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 scarcity	amod
3	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	5 was	advmod
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scarcity	cop
6	again	again	ADV	_	7 great	advmod
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 scarcity	amod
8	scarcity	scarcity	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 ended	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 corner	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 corner	det
11	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scarcity	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 land	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 land	det
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 corner	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 overheard	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 overheard	cc
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 night	nummod
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 overheard	obl:unmarked
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 children	det
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 overheard	nsubj
21	overheard	overhear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scarcity	conj
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 stepmother	nmod:poss
23	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 overheard	obj
24	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 stepmother	acl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 father	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 consumed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 father	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 consumed	punct
30	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	33 consumed	nsubj:pass
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 consumed	aux:pass
32	again	again	ADV	_	33 consumed	advmod
33	consumed	consume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 saying	ccomp
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 have	punct
35	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 have	nsubj
36	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 ended	aux
37	only	only	ADV	_	38 half	advmod
38	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	40 loaf	det:predet
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 loaf	det
40	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 have	obj
41	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 have	xcomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 ended	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 ended	cc
44	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 ended	advmod
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 song	det
46	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 ended	nsubj:pass
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 ended	aux:pass
48	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
49	:	:	PUNCT	_	54 sent	punct
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 children	det
51	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 sent	nsubj:pass
52	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 sent	aux
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 sent	aux:pass
54	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 ended	conj
55	away	away	ADV	_	54 sent	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 ended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		long great scarcity	every corner of the land			tree rules
2	overhear	past	the children	children's stepmother		night		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stepmother=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	gerund	children's stepmother not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	consume in a quote	present · passive		Everything		again	to children's father	vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
5	leave in a quote	participle						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	end in a quote	present · passive		long great scarcity		then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
7	send away in a quote	must · passive		the children			away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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