Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 17

Then he went back and said to Gretel: ‘Be comforted, dear little sister, and sleep in peace, God will not forsake us,’ and he lay down again in his bed.

Who acts: moon, God · What happens: go back, say, comfort, sleep, not forsake, lie down · To what, where: Gretel, dear little sister, peace, us, bed · 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 (moon, God), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Gretel	case
8	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 comforted	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 comforted	punct
11	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 comforted	aux:pass
12	comforted	comfort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 forsake	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sister	punct
14	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sister	amod
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sister	amod
16	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comforted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sleep	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sleep	cc
19	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 comforted	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 peace	case
21	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sleep	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 forsake	punct
23	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 forsake	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 forsake	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 forsake	advmod
26	forsake	forsake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
27	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 forsake	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 forsake	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 forsake	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lay	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lay	nsubj
32	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
33	down	down	ADV	_	32 lay	advmod
34	again	again	ADV	_	32 lay	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 bed	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 bed	nmod:poss
37	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	moon				then		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	moon not said here		Gretel				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to gretel=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	comfort	infinitive · passive	God not said here	dear little sister					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	sleep	present	God not said here			peace			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in peace=Location
5	not forsake	future	God	us					tree rules
6	lie down	past	moon			moon's bed	again	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location

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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