Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 44

The man’s heart was heavy, and he thought: ‘It would be better for you to share the last mouthful with your children.’

Who acts: heart, other, It, you · What happens: be, think, share · To what, where: last mouthful · 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 (heart, other, It, you), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heart	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 man	case
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heavy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	cop
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 better	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 better	punct
13	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 better	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 better	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 better	cop
16	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 thought	ccomp
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 share	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 share	nsubj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 share	mark
20	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 better	csubj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mouthful	det
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mouthful	amod
23	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 share	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 children	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 children	nmod:poss
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 share	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heavy	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the man's heart		heavy property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	other			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	It		good property	tree rules
4	share	to-infinitive	you	the last mouthful	with your children	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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