Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 7

"Oh, you simpleton!" said she, "then we must all four die of hunger; you had better plane the coffins for us."

Who acts: you, simpleton · What happens: simpleton, say, die, have · To what, where: better plane · 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 (you, simpleton), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 simpleton	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 simpleton	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 simpleton	nsubj
5	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 simpleton	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 simpleton	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 die	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 she	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 she	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 die	advmod
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 die	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 die	aux
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 four	advmod
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 die	nummod
17	die	die	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 hunger	case
19	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 die	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 had	punct
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 had	nsubj
22	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
23	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 plane	amod
24	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 had	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 coffins	det
26	coffins	coffin	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 had	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 us	case
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 had	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	simpleton in a quote		you				tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	simpleton				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	die in a quote	must	simpleton		then	of hunger	tree rules
4	have in a quote	past	you	better plane		for 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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