The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 10

The children, too, had not been able to sleep for hunger, and had heard what their step-mother had said to their father.

Who acts: children, step mother · What happens: not be, sleep, hear, say · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, step mother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 able	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 children	punct
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 children	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 children	punct
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 able	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 able	advmod
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 able	cop
9	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sleep	mark
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 hunger	case
13	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sleep	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heard	cc
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 able	conj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 heard	obj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
20	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mother	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 step	punct
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 said	aux
24	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 what	acl:relcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 father	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past · perfect	the children		able property	tree rules
2	sleep	to-infinitive	the children not said here		for hunger	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past · perfect	the children not said here			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past · perfect	children's step mother	children's father		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient

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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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