Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 57
It was now the third morning since they had left their father's house, and they still walked on; but they only got deeper and deeper into the wood, and Hansel saw that if help did not come very soon they would die of hunger.
Who acts: sleep, wood, Hansel, help · What happens: be, leave, walk on, get, see, not come · To what, where: third morning, house
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 (sleep, wood, Hansel, help), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 morning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 morning | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 morning | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 morning | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 morning | amod |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 left | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 left | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | aux |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 morning | acl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 father | case |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 walked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 walked | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 walked | nsubj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 walked | advmod |
| 19 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADV | _ | 19 walked | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 got | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 got | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 got | nsubj |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 got | advmod |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 walked | parataxis |
| 26 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 got | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 deeper | cc |
| 28 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 deeper | conj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 wood | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wood | det |
| 31 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 deeper | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 saw | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 saw | cc |
| 34 | Hansel | Hansel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 saw | nsubj |
| 35 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 got | conj |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 come | mark |
| 37 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 come | mark |
| 38 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 come | nsubj |
| 39 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 come | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 come | advmod |
| 41 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 saw | ccomp |
| 42 | very | very | ADV | _ | 43 soon | advmod |
| 43 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 46 die | advmod |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 die | nsubj |
| 45 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 die | aux |
| 46 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 come | advcl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 hunger | case |
| 48 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 die | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 morning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sleep | the third morning | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | wood | wood's father's house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk on | past | wood | still | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | past | wood | deep property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | see | past | Hansel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | not come a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | help | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | die | would | wood | of hunger; soon property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |
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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