Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 9

The two children, however, had not gone to sleep for very hunger, and so they overheard what the stepmother said to their father.

Who acts: two children, children, stepmother · What happens: not go, sleep, overhear, say · To what, where: father · 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 (two children, children, stepmother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 children	nummod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gone	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 children	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	9 gone	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 gone	advmod
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sleep	mark
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 gone	advcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 hunger	case
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 hunger	advmod
14	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sleep	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 overheard	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 overheard	cc
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 overheard	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 overheard	nsubj
19	overheard	overhear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	parataxis
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 said	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stepmother	det
22	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 overheard	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 father	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	the two children		however property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive	the two children not said here		for hunger	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	overhear	past	children = child			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	the stepmother	children's father		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to father=Recipient

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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