Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 28

When they had reached the middle of the forest, the father said: ‘Now, children, pile up some wood, and I will light a fire that you may not be cold.’

Who acts: wife, father, children, I, fire · What happens: reach, say, pile up, light, not be · To what, where: middle, wood, fire · 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 (wife, father, children, I), 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	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	aux
4	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 middle	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 father	det
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 children	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 children	punct
16	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 children	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 children	punct
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 pile	punct
20	pile	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 children	acl:relcl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 pile	compound:prt
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 wood	det
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pile	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 light	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 light	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 light	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 light	aux
28	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fire	det
30	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 light	obj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 cold	nsubj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 cold	nsubj
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 cold	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 cold	advmod
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 cold	cop
36	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fire	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 light	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 light	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past · perfect	wife	the middle of the forest		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent middle=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pile up	present	children not said here	some wood		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Destination
4	light	future	I	a fire		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
5	not is	may	a fire		cold property	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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