Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 67

They began to walk again, but they always came deeper into the forest, and if help did not come soon, they must die of hunger and weariness.

Who acts: Hansel, help · What happens: begin, walk, come, not come, die

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, help), 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 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 walk	mark
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 walk	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 came	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 came	advmod
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
11	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 came	xcomp
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 deeper	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 come	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 come	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
18	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 come	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 come	advmod
21	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 came	conj
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 come	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 die	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 die	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 die	aux
26	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 come	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 hunger	case
28	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 die	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 weariness	cc
30	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hunger	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Hansel			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	walk	to-infinitive	Hansel not said here	again		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	Hansel		always, deep property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not come a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	help		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	die	must	Hansel		of hunger and weariness	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer

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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