Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 6

‘I’ll tell you what, husband,’ answered the woman, ‘early tomorrow morning we will take the children out into the forest to where it is the thickest; there we will light a fire for them, and give each of them one more piece of bread, and then we will go to our work and leave them alone.

Who acts: I, we, forest, each, our · What happens: tell, answer, take out, be, light, give · To what, where: husband, you, woman, children, forest, fire · 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 (I, we, forest, each), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 husband	punct
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 morning	punct
16	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 morning	amod
17	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 morning	compound
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obl
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 take	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 answered	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 children	det
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 take	obj
24	out	out	ADV	_	21 take	advmod
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 forest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 forest	det
27	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	33 thickest	case
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 thickest	advmod
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 thickest	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 thickest	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 thickest	det
33	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 take	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 light	punct
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 light	expl
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 light	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 light	aux
38	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	parataxis
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 fire	det
40	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 light	obj
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 light	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 give	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 give	cc
45	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	conj
46	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	51 piece	nsubj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 them	case
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 each	nmod
49	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 piece	nummod
50	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	51 piece	amod
51	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 give	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 bread	case
53	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 piece	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 go	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 go	cc
56	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	59 go	advmod
57	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 go	nsubj
58	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 go	aux
59	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	ccomp
60	to	to	ADP	_	62 work	case
61	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 work	nmod:poss
62	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 go	obl
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 leave	cc
64	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 go	conj
65	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 leave	obj
66	alone	alone	ADV	_	64 leave	advmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I	husband	you				tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past			the woman				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality
3	take out	future	we	the children		the forest	morning	out property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
4	is	present	forest					thick property	tree rules
5	light	future	we	a fire		there		for children = child	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fire=Product for they=Beneficiary
6	give	infinitive	I not said here						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	piece		each					of bread	tree rules
8	go	future	we			our work	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location
9	leave	infinitive	we not said here	children = child				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
10	work		our						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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