Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 43
Nevertheless, he comforted Grethel, saying, "Do not cry; sleep in quiet; the good God will not forsake us."
Who acts: Hansel, good God · What happens: comfort, say, not cry, not forsake · To what, where: Grethel, sleep, quiet, us · 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 (Hansel, good God), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 4 comforted | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 comforted | nsubj |
| 4 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Grethel | Grethel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 comforted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saying | punct |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 comforted | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cry | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cry | punct |
| 10 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 cry | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 cry | advmod |
| 12 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 saying | ccomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sleep | punct |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cry | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 quiet | case |
| 16 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cry | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 forsake | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 God | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 God | amod |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 forsake | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 forsake | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 forsake | advmod |
| 23 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 comforted | parataxis |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 forsake | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 forsake | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 forsake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | past | Hansel | Grethel | nevertheless property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Hansel not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not cry speech: express in a quote | infinitive · do-support | sleep | quiet | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not forsake in a quote | future | the good God | us | 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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