Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 104

‘If the wild beasts in the forest had but devoured us, we should at any rate have died together.’

Who acts: wild beasts · What happens: have, devour, die · To what, where: us

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Gretel. 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), 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	_	20 died	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beasts	det
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beasts	amod
5	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beasts	nmod
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 should	advcl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 devoured	cc
11	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	conj
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 devoured	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 should	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 died	aux
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 rate	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 rate	det
18	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 should	obl
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 died	aux
20	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
21	together	together	ADV	_	20 died	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 died	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past	the wild beasts in the forest			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	devour	past	the wild beasts in the forest not said here	us		vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
3	die	should · perfect			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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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