Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 42

The children, however, had heard the conversation as they lay awake, and as soon as the old people went to sleep Hansel got up, intending to pick up some pebbles as before; but the wife had locked the door, so that he could not get out.

Who acts: children, old people, Hansel · What happens: hear, lay, go, sleep, get up, intend · To what, where: children, pebbles, wife

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, old people, Hansel), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heard	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 children	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 heard	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	aux
7	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 conversation	det
9	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 lay	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	advcl
13	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lay	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 soon	advmod
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 went	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 went	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 people	amod
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 sleep	mark
24	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 went	xcomp
25	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 got	nsubj
26	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sleep	ccomp
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 got	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 intending	punct
29	intending	intend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 got	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 pick	mark
31	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 intending	xcomp
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 pick	compound:prt
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 pebbles	det
34	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pick	obj
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 before	case
36	before	before	ADV	_	31 pick	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 locked	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 locked	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wife	det
40	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 locked	nsubj:pass
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 locked	aux
42	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 heard	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 door	det
44	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 locked	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 get	punct
46	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	51 get	mark
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 so	fixed
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 get	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 get	aux
50	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 get	advmod
51	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 locked	conj
52	out	out	ADV	_	51 get	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect · passive		the children	however property	tree rules
2	lay	present	children = child		awake property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	the old people		soon property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sleep	to-infinitive	the old people not said here			tree rules
5	get up	past	Hansel			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	intend	gerund	Hansel not said here			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	pick up not said to happen	to-infinitive	Hansel not said here	some pebbles		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Topic
8	lock	past · perfect · passive		the wife		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient door=Result
9	not get out	could	Hansel		out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: 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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