Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 36

Gretel began to cry and said: ‘How are we to get out of the forest now?’

Who acts: Gretel, we · What happens: begin, cry, say, be · 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 (Gretel, 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	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cry	mark
4	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
9	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 get	advmod
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 get	cop
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 get	nsubj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 get	mark
13	get	get	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 forest	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obl
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 get	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Gretel				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Gretel not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Gretel not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	present	we	the forest	now	get 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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