Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 51

We are going into the forest to hew wood, and in the evening, when we are ready, we will come and fetch you."

Who acts: We · What happens: go, hew, be, come, fetch · To what, where: forest, wood, you

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), 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 going	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hew	mark
8	hew	hew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	advcl
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hew	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 come	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 evening	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 evening	det
14	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ready	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 ready	advmod
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 ready	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 ready	cop
19	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 evening	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 evening	punct
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fetch	cc
25	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 fetch	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	We		the forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
2	hew	to-infinitive	We not said here	wood				vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient
3	is	present	we				ready property	tree rules
4	come	future	we			evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fetch	infinitive	we not said here	you				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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