The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 16

Then he went back and said to Grettel: “Be comforted, my dear little sister, and go to sleep: God will not desert us”; and he lay down in bed again.

Who acts: Grettel, God · What happens: go back, say, comfort, go, not desert, lie down · To what, where: Grettel, dear little sister, sleep, us, bed · 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 (Grettel, God), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Grettel	case
8	Grettel	Grettel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 comforted	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 comforted	punct
11	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 comforted	aux:pass
12	comforted	comfort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sister	punct
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sister	nmod:poss
15	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sister	amod
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sister	amod
17	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comforted	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 go	cc
20	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 comforted	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 sleep	case
22	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 desert	punct
24	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 desert	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 desert	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 desert	advmod
27	desert	desert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 go	parataxis
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 desert	obj
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 desert	punct
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 lay	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lay	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 lay	nsubj
33	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 lay	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 bed	case
36	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lay	obl
37	again	again	ADV	_	33 lay	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	Grettel				then		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Grettel not said here		Grettel				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to grettel=Recipient clause=Topic
3	comfort in a quote	infinitive · passive		my dear little sister					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	go in a quote	infinitive				sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location
5	not desert in a quote	future	God	us					vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme we=Source
6	lie down	past	Grettel			bed	again	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location

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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