Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 50

The mother led the children deep into the wood, where they had never been before, and there making an immense fire, she said to them, "Sit down here and rest, and when you feel tired you can sleep for a little while.

Who acts: mother, children · What happens: lead, not be, make, say, sit down, rest · To what, where: children, immense fire · 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 (mother, children), 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 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	nsubj
3	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 led	obj
6	deep	deep	ADV	_	9 wood	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 wood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wood	det
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 before	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 before	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 before	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 before	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 before	advmod
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 before	cop
16	before	before	ADV	_	9 wood	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 making	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 making	cc
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 making	expl
20	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 led	advcl
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 fire	det
22	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fire	amod
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 making	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 led	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Sit	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 Sit	punct
31	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 said	parataxis
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 Sit	compound:prt
33	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 Sit	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 rest	cc
35	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 Sit	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 sleep	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 sleep	cc
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 feel	advmod
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 feel	nsubj
40	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 sleep	advcl
41	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 feel	xcomp
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 sleep	nsubj
43	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 sleep	aux
44	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 Sit	conj
45	for	for	ADP	_	48 while	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 while	det
47	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 while	amod
48	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sleep	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past	the mother	the children					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
2	not is	past · perfect	children = child					before property	tree rules
3	make	gerund	the mother not said here	a immense fire		there			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product
4	say speech: assert	past	mother		children = child				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	sit down in a quote	infinitive				here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rest in a quote	infinitive							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	feel in a quote	present	children = child					tired property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
8	sleep in a quote	can	children = child				while		vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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