Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 18
When day dawned, but before the sun had risen, the woman came and awoke the two children, saying: ‘Get up, you sluggards! we are going into the forest to fetch wood.’
Who acts: sun, woman, you, we · What happens: dawn, rise, come, awake, say, get up · To what, where: two children, forest, wood · 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 (sun, woman, you, we), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 dawned | advmod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dawned | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 risen | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 risen | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 risen | aux |
| 10 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 came | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 risen | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dawned | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 awoke | cc |
| 16 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 children | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 children | nummod |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 awoke | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saying | punct |
| 21 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 awoke | advcl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 Get | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 Get | punct |
| 24 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 saying | ccomp |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 Get | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sluggards | punct |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 sluggards | nsubj |
| 28 | sluggards | sluggard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dawned | parataxis |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 sluggards | punct |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 going | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 going | aux |
| 32 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 dawned | advcl:relcl |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 forest | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 forest | det |
| 35 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 going | obl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 fetch | mark |
| 37 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 going | advcl |
| 38 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fetch | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 going | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 dawned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | participle | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rise | past · perfect | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | awake | past | the woman not said here | the two children | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | the woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | get up | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | sluggard | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | go | present · progressive | we | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 9 | fetch | to-infinitive | we not said here | wood | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
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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