Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 7
They will not find the way home again, and we shall be rid of them.’
Who acts: children, we · What happens: not find, be · To what, where: way
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 (children, 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 | 4 find | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 find | advmod |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 find | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 find | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rid | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rid | cc |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 rid | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 rid | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 rid | cop |
| 14 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 find | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rid | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | future | children = child | the way | again | home property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||
| 2 | is | shall | we | of children = child; rid property | tree rules |
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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