Grimms' Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, sentence 8

‘No, wife,’ said the man, ‘I will not do that; how can I bear to leave my children alone in the forest?--the wild animals would soon come and tear them to pieces.’

Who acts: wife, I, wild animals · What happens: say, not do, bear, leave, come, tear · To what, where: man, that, children, forest · 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 (wife, I, wild animals), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 do	advmod
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 do	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 bear	punct
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 bear	advmod
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 bear	aux
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 bear	nsubj
21	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 leave	mark
23	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 bear	xcomp
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 children	nmod:poss
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 leave	obj
26	alone	alone	ADV	_	23 leave	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 forest	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 forest	det
29	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 leave	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 animals	det
33	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 animals	amod
34	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 come	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
36	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 come	advmod
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 tear	cc
39	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 come	conj
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 tear	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 pieces	case
42	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 tear	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	wife	the man			tree rules
2	not do	future	I	that			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
3	bear	can	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	leave	to-infinitive	I not said here	my children	the forest	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme in forest=Location
5	come	would	the wild animals			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tear	infinitive	the wild animals not said here	children = child		to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient to piece=Result

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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