Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 61

They did not awake until it was dark night, and Hansel comforted his little sister and said: ‘Just wait, Gretel, until the moon rises, and then we shall see the crumbs of bread which I have strewn about, they will show us our way home again.’

Who acts: Hansel, fire, moon, we · What happens: do, be, comfort, say, wait, rise · To what, where: little sister, Gretel, crumbs, bread, way, 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 (Hansel, fire, moon, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 awake	advmod
4	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 did	xcomp
5	until	until	ADP	_	9 night	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 night	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 night	cop
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 night	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 comforted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 comforted	cc
12	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 comforted	nsubj
13	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sister	nmod:poss
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sister	amod
16	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comforted	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 comforted	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 wait	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 wait	punct
21	Just	just	ADV	_	22 wait	advmod
22	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Gretel	punct
24	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 wait	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rises	punct
26	until	until	SCONJ	_	29 rises	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 moon	det
28	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rises	nsubj
29	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 wait	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 see	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 see	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 see	advmod
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 see	nsubj
34	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 see	aux
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wait	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 crumbs	det
37	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 see	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 bread	case
39	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 crumbs	nmod
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 strewn	nsubj:pass
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 strewn	nsubj
42	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 strewn	aux
43	strewn	strewn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 bread	acl:relcl
44	about	about	ADV	_	43 strewn	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 show	punct
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 show	nsubj
47	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 show	aux
48	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wait	parataxis
49	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 show	iobj
50	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 way	nmod:poss
51	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 show	obj
52	home	home	ADV	_	48 show	advmod
53	again	again	ADV	_	48 show	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 wait	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Hansel				awake property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	fire			until dark night		tree rules
3	comfort	past	Hansel	Gretel's little sister				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sister=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	Hansel not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	wait	infinitive		Gretel				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	rise	present	the moon					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	see	shall	we	the crumbs of bread		then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crumb=Stimulus
8	strewn	present · perfect · passive		bread			about property	tree rules
9	show	future	Hansel	our way	us	again	home property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient way=Topic

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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