Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 30

The brushwood was lighted, and when the flames were burning very high, the woman said: ‘Now, children, lay yourselves down by the fire and rest, we will go into the forest and cut some wood.

Who acts: flames, woman, children, we · What happens: light, burn, say, lay down, go, cut · To what, where: brushwood, yourselves, 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 (flames, woman, children, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brushwood	det
2	brushwood	brushwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lighted	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lighted	aux:pass
4	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 burning	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 burning	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 burning	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flames	det
9	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 burning	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 burning	aux
11	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lighted	conj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 high	advmod
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 burning	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woman	det
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lighted	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 children	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 children	punct
20	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 children	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 children	punct
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lay	punct
24	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 children	acl:relcl
25	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 lay	obj
26	down	down	ADP	_	24 lay	compound:prt
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 fire	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fire	det
29	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rest	cc
31	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fire	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 go	punct
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 go	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 go	aux
35	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 forest	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 forest	det
38	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 go	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 cut	cc
40	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 go	conj
41	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	42 wood	det
42	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cut	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	light	past · passive		the brushwood			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
2	burn	past · progressive	the flames			high property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	lay down	present	children not said here	yourselves		by the fire and rest	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme by fire=Destination
5	go	future	we		the forest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
6	cut	infinitive	we not said here	some wood			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product

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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