Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 42

Not long afterwards, there was once more great dearth throughout the land, and the children heard their mother saying at night to their father: ‘Everything is eaten again, we have one half loaf left, and that is the end.

Who acts: great dearth, children, mother, we, that · What happens: be, hear, say, eat, have, leave · To what, where: land, mother, father, Everything, one half loaf, end · 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 (great dearth, children, mother, 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 long	advcl
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 great	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 great	advmod
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dearth	amod
10	dearth	dearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
11	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	13 land	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 land	det
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 heard	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 children	det
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heard	nsubj
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 long	conj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	obj
21	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 mother	acl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 night	case
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saying	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 father	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 father	nmod:poss
26	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saying	obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 eaten	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 eaten	punct
29	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	31 eaten	nsubj:pass
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 eaten	aux:pass
31	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 heard	conj
32	again	again	ADV	_	31 eaten	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 have	punct
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 have	nsubj
35	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 eaten	parataxis
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 loaf	nummod
37	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	38 loaf	compound
38	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 have	obj
39	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 loaf	acl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 end	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 end	cc
42	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 end	nsubj
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 end	cop
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 end	det
45	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	great dearth			the land; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme throughout land=Location
2	hear	past	the children	children's mother				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	gerund	children's mother not said here		children's father		night	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient
4	eat	present · passive		Everything			again	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	have	present	we	one half loaf				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Patient
6	leave	participle		one half loaf not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	present	that	the end				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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