The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 27

When they had reached the middle of the forest the father said: “Now, children, go and fetch a lot of wood, and I’ll light a fire that you may not feel cold.”

Who acts: Hansel, father, you · What happens: reach, say, go, fetch, light, not feel · To what, where: middle, forest, lot, fire · 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 (Hansel, father, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	aux
4	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 go	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 middle	nmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 father	det
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 forest	acl:relcl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 children	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 children	punct
15	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 children	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 children	punct
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reached	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct
19	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fetch	cc
21	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 go	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 lot	det
23	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fetch	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 wood	case
25	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lot	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 light	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 light	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 light	nsubj
29	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 light	aux
30	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 fire	det
32	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 light	obj
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 feel	obj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 feel	nsubj
35	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 feel	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 feel	advmod
37	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 fire	acl:relcl
38	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 feel	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past · perfect	Hansel	the middle of the forest	children obl	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent middle=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the father	the forest not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent forest=Topic
3	go in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	a lot of wood		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme
5	light in a quote	future	the father = father	a fire		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
6	not feel in a quote	may	you	a fire	cold property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme

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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