Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 4

Now when he thought over this by night in his bed, and tossed about in his anxiety, he groaned and said to his wife: ‘What is to become of us?

Who acts: boy · What happens: think, toss, groan, say, be · To what, where: this, wife · 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 (boy), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 thought	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 thought	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 thought	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bed	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bed	nmod:poss
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 night	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tossed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tossed	cc
14	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
15	about	about	ADP	_	18 anxiety	case
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 anxiety	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 anxiety	nmod:poss
18	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tossed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 groaned	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 groaned	nsubj
21	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 groaned	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 wife	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 wife	nmod:poss
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 become	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 become	punct
29	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 become	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 become	cop
31	to	to	PART	_	32 become	mark
32	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 groaned	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 us	case
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 become	obl
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	boy		this	now; night		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	toss	past	boy not said here				about boy's anxiety	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent about anxiety=Destination
3	groan	past	boy					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	boy not said here	boy's wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
5	is	present					of us; become 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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