Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 5
How are we to feed our poor children, when we no longer have anything even for ourselves?’
Who acts: we · What happens: be, have · To what, where: anything
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 (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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 feed | advmod |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feed | cop |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 feed | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 feed | mark |
| 5 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 children | nmod:poss |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 children | amod |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 feed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 longer | advmod |
| 13 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 have | advmod |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feed | conj |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 have | obj |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 ourselves | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 ourselves | case |
| 18 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 have | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 feed | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 feed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | we | feed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | we | anything | for ourselves; long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
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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