Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 84

Had we only been eaten by the wild beasts in the wood, then we should have died together."

Who acts: wild beasts, we · What happens: eat, die · To what, where: we

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 (wild beasts, 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	Had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eaten	aux
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 eaten	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 eaten	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 eaten	aux:pass
5	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 beasts	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beasts	det
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beasts	amod
9	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eaten	obl:agent
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 wood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beasts	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 died	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 died	advmod
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 died	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 died	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 died	aux
18	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 eaten	conj
19	together	together	ADV	_	18 died	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 eaten	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect · passive	the wild beasts in the wood	we					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	die	should · perfect	we				then	together property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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