Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 11
The two children had also not been able to sleep for hunger, and had heard what their stepmother had said to their father.
Who acts: two children · What happens: have, not be, sleep, hear, say · To what, where: stepmother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (two children), 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 | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 able | advmod |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 able | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 able | cop |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sleep | mark |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 hunger | case |
| 12 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sleep | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heard | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 heard | cc |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | aux |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 had | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 said | obj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | aux |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 heard | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 father | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the two children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | participle | the two children not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | the two children not said here | for hunger | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hear | past · perfect | the two children not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | children's stepmother | to children's father | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner |
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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