Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 122

‘But now we must be off,’ said Hansel, ‘that we may get out of the witch’s forest.’

Who acts: we, Hansel · What happens: be off, say, get out · To what, where: forest · 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 (we, Hansel), 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	_	6 be	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 be	cc
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 be	advmod
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 be	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 be	aux
6	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 be	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 be	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 be	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 get	mark
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 get	nsubj
16	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
18	out	out	ADP	_	23 forest	case
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 forest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 witch	det
21	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 forest	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 witch	case
23	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	be off	must	we		now	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Hansel			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get out	may	we	the witch's forest		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: «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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