Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 57

The woman led the children still deeper into the forest, where they had never in their lives been before.

Who acts: woman, children · What happens: lead, have · To what, where: children, forest, lives

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 (woman, children), 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 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	nsubj
3	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 led	obj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 deeper	advmod
7	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 forest	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 had	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 forest	acl:relcl
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 lives	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 lives	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lives	nmod:poss
18	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 lives	acl
20	before	before	ADV	_	19 been	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past	the woman	the children		the forest			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme into forest=Destination
2	have	past	children = child	children's lives					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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