Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 4
"Know, then, my husband," answered she, "we will lead them away, quite early in the morning, into the thickest part of the wood, and there make them a fire, and give them each a little piece of bread; then we will go to our work, and leave them alone, so they will not find the way home again, and we shall be freed from them." "
Who acts: famine, we, children, our · What happens: know, answer, lead away, make, give, go · To what, where: famine, children, little piece, work, way, we · 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 (famine, we, children, our), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Know | punct |
| 2 | Know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Know | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Know | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 husband | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 husband | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Know | conj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lead | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 lead | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 lead | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 lead | aux |
| 16 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lead | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 lead | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 early | punct |
| 20 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 early | advmod |
| 21 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 lead | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 morning | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 morning | det |
| 24 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 early | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 part | punct |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 part | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 part | det |
| 28 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 part | amod |
| 29 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lead | parataxis |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 wood | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wood | det |
| 32 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 part | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 make | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 make | cc |
| 35 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 make | advmod |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Know | parataxis |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 make | obj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 fire | det |
| 39 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 give | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 give | cc |
| 42 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Know | conj |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 give | iobj |
| 44 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 piece | det |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 piece | det |
| 46 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 piece | amod |
| 47 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 give | obj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 bread | case |
| 49 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 piece | nmod |
| 50 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 54 go | punct |
| 51 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 54 go | advmod |
| 52 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 54 go | nsubj |
| 53 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 54 go | aux |
| 54 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Know | parataxis |
| 55 | to | to | ADP | _ | 57 work | case |
| 56 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 work | nmod:poss |
| 57 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 go | obl |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 leave | punct |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 leave | cc |
| 60 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 54 go | conj |
| 61 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 leave | obj |
| 62 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 60 leave | advmod |
| 63 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 find | punct |
| 64 | so | so | ADV | _ | 68 find | advmod |
| 65 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 68 find | nsubj |
| 66 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 68 find | aux |
| 67 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 68 find | advmod |
| 68 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 54 go | conj |
| 69 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 70 way | det |
| 70 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 find | obj |
| 71 | home | home | ADV | _ | 68 find | advmod |
| 72 | again | again | ADV | _ | 68 find | advmod |
| 73 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 78 freed | punct |
| 74 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 78 freed | cc |
| 75 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 78 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 76 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 78 freed | aux |
| 77 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 78 freed | aux:pass |
| 78 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Know | parataxis |
| 79 | from | from | ADP | _ | 80 them | case |
| 80 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 78 freed | obl |
| 81 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Know | punct |
| 82 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Know | punct |
| 83 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | imperative | famine not said here | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | famine | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lead away in a quote | future | we | children = child | away, early property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | make in a quote | infinitive | children = child | there | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset they=Beneficiary fire=Product | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | infinitive | famine not said here | each little piece of bread | children = child | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient piece=Theme | |||
| 6 | go in a quote | future | we | our work | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | leave in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | children = child | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 8 | not find in a quote | future | children = child | the way | again | home property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||
| 9 | free in a quote | shall · passive | we | from children = child | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | ||||
| 10 | work in a quote | our | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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