Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 36

‘Take us out, take us out, or alas! we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through long ago,’ cried the loaves as before.

Who acts: you · What happens: take out, burnt, bake, cry · To what, where: us, we, loaves

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Take	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 Take	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	conj
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 take	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 alas	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 alas	cc
11	alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Take	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 burnt	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 burnt	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 burnt	aux:pass
16	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Take	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 cinder	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cinder	det
19	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 burnt	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 baked	punct
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 baked	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 baked	aux:pass
23	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Take	parataxis
24	through	through	ADP	_	25 long	case
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 ago	advmod
26	ago	ago	ADV	_	23 baked	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cried	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 cried	punct
29	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 baked	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 loaves	det
31	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 cried	obj
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 before	advmod
33	before	before	ADV	_	29 cried	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take out	imperative	you not said here	us	alas obl	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	take out	infinitive	you not said here	us		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
3	burnt	shall · passive		we	to a cinder	tree rules
4	bake	past · passive		we	ago property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
5	cry speech: express	past		the loaves	before property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=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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