The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 104

“Kind heaven help us now!” she cried; “if only the wild beasts in the wood had eaten us, then at least we should have died together.”

Who acts: Kind heaven, heaven, we · What happens: help, cry, eat, die · To what, where: us, wild beasts, least · 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 (Kind heaven, heaven, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct
2	Kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heaven	amod
3	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 help	nsubj
4	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 help	advmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 help	parataxis
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 eaten	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 eaten	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 eaten	mark
14	only	only	ADV	_	17 beasts	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 beasts	det
16	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 beasts	amod
17	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eaten	nsubj:pass
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 wood	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 wood	det
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beasts	nmod
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 eaten	aux
22	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cried	advcl
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 eaten	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 died	punct
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 died	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 least	case
27	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 died	obl
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 died	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 died	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 died	aux
31	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 cried	conj
32	together	together	ADV	_	31 died	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help in a quote	present	Kind heaven	us		now		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	heaven					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect · passive		the wild beasts in the wood				tree rules
4	die in a quote	should · perfect	we		least	then	together property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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