Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 38
We will take them deeper into the wood, so that they may not find the way out again; it is the only means of escape for us."
Who acts: We, children, way, only · What happens: take, not find, be, mean · To what, where: children, wood, way
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, children, way, only), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 take | xcomp |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 find | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 find | advmod |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 way | advmod |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 find | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 only | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 only | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 only | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 only | det |
| 24 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 means | nsubj |
| 25 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 escape | case |
| 27 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 means | obl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 us | case |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 escape | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | We | children = child | the wood | deep property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into wood=Destination | ||
| 2 | not find | may | children = child | the way | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | present | way | only property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | the only | of escape for us | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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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