Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 49

Nevertheless he comforted his little sister, and said: ‘Do not cry, Gretel, go to sleep quietly, the good God will help us.’

Who acts: other, good God · What happens: comfort, say, not cry, go, sleep, help · To what, where: little sister, Gretel, us · 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 (other, good God), 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	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	3 comforted	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 comforted	nsubj
3	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sister	nmod:poss
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sister	amod
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comforted	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 comforted	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 cry	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 cry	punct
12	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 cry	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 cry	advmod
14	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Gretel	punct
16	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cry	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cry	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 sleep	mark
20	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	advcl
21	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	20 sleep	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 help	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 God	det
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 God	amod
25	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 help	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 help	aux
27	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cry	conj
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 help	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comforted	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 comforted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	comfort	past	other		other's little sister	nevertheless property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sister=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	other not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not cry speech: express	infinitive · do-support		Gretel			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gretel=Topic
4	go	infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sleep	to-infinitive				quietly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	help	future	the good God		us		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary

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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