Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 64

They walked the whole night and all the next day too from morning till evening, but they did not get out of the forest, and were very hungry, for they had nothing to eat but two or three berries, which grew on the ground.

Who acts: Hansel · What happens: walk, not get out, be, have, eat, grow · To what, where: forest, nothing, ground

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), 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 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 night	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	amod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl:unmarked
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 morning	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 morning	nsubj
11	too	too	ADV	_	13 morning	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 morning	case
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl:unmarked
14	till	till	ADP	_	15 evening	case
15	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 morning	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 get	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 get	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 get	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 get	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 get	advmod
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 walked	advcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 forest	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 forest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 forest	det
25	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 get	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hungry	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hungry	cc
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 hungry	cop
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 hungry	advmod
30	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 walked	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 had	case
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 had	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 eat	mark
37	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 nothing	acl
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 berries	cc
39	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 berries	nummod
40	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 three	cc
41	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 two	conj
42	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 nothing	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 grew	punct
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 grew	nsubj
45	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 nothing	conj
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 ground	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 ground	det
48	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 grew	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Hansel			morning; night		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not get out	past · do-support	Hansel	the forest				tree rules
3	is	past	Hansel not said here				hungry property	tree rules
4	have	past	Hansel	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	eat	to-infinitive	Hansel not said here	nothing not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	grow	past			the ground			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location

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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