Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 58

Then a great fire was again made, and the mother said: ‘Just sit there, you children, and when you are tired you may sleep a little; we are going into the forest to cut wood, and in the evening when we are done, we will come and fetch you away.’

Who acts: mother, you, we · What happens: make, say, sit, child, be, sleep · To what, where: great fire, little, forest, wood, we, you · 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 (mother, you, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 made	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fire	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fire	amod
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
6	again	again	ADV	_	7 made	advmod
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 sit	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 sit	punct
15	Just	just	ADV	_	16 sit	advmod
16	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 sit	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 children	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 children	nsubj
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sit	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sleep	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sleep	cc
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 tired	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 tired	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 tired	cop
26	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sleep	advcl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 sleep	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 sleep	aux
29	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sit	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 little	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sleep	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 going	punct
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 going	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 going	aux
35	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 made	conj
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 forest	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 forest	det
38	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 going	obl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 cut	mark
40	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 going	advcl
41	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cut	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 come	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 come	cc
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 evening	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 evening	det
46	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 come	obl
47	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	50 done	advmod
48	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 done	nsubj
49	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 done	aux:pass
50	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 evening	acl:relcl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 evening	punct
52	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 come	nsubj
53	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 come	aux
54	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 going	parataxis
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 fetch	cc
56	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 come	conj
57	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	56 fetch	obj
58	away	away	ADV	_	56 fetch	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct
60	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		a great fire		then; again		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit	infinitive			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	child		you					tree rules
5	is	present	you				tired property	tree rules
6	sleep	may	you	a little				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme
7	go	present · progressive	we		the forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
8	cut	to-infinitive	we not said here	wood				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product
9	do	present · passive		we				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
10	come	future	we			evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	fetch away	infinitive	we not said here	you			away property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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