Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 43

The children must go, we will take them farther into the wood, so that they will not find their way out again; there is no other means of saving ourselves!’

Who acts: children, we, other · What happens: go, take, not find, be, mean, save · To what, where: children, wood, way, ourselves · 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 (children, we, other), 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 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 take	punct
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 take	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 take	aux
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	parataxis
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	obj
10	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 take	advmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 find	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	20 find	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 so	fixed
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 find	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 find	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 find	advmod
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 take	conj
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 way	nmod:poss
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 find	obj
23	out	out	ADV	_	22 way	advmod
24	again	again	ADV	_	20 find	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 is	punct
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 is	expl
27	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 go	conj
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 other	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 means	nsubj
30	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 is	ccomp
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 saving	mark
32	saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 means	ccomp
33	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 saving	obj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 saving	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 saving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	must	the children					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	future	we	children = child	the wood		far property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into wood=Destination
3	not find	future	children = child	children's way		again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
4	be	present	the children not said here		there			tree rules
5	mean	present	no other					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	save	gerund		ourselves				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme

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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