Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 6

How can you bring your heart to leave my children all alone in the wood, for the wild beasts will soon come and tear them to pieces?"

Who acts: you, wild beasts · What happens: bring, leave, come, tear · To what, where: heart, children, wood

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 (you, wild beasts), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 bring	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 bring	nsubj
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heart	nmod:poss
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 leave	mark
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bring	advcl
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 children	nmod:poss
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 leave	obj
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 alone	advmod
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 leave	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 wood	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 come	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beasts	det
19	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 beasts	amod
20	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 come	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 come	advmod
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bring	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tear	cc
25	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tear	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 pieces	case
28	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 tear	obl
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bring	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	can	you	your heart			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
2	leave	to-infinitive	you not said here	my children	the wood	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme in wood=Location
3	come	future	the wild beasts			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tear	infinitive	the wild beasts not said here	children = child		to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient to piece=Result

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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