The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 29

The brushwood was set fire to, and when the flames leaped high the woman said: “Now lie down at the fire, children, and rest yourselves: we are going into the forest to cut down wood; when we’ve finished we’ll come back and fetch you.”

Who acts: flames, we · What happens: set, leap, say, lie down, rest, go · To what, where: brushwood, flames, fire, yourselves, forest, wood · 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 (flames, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brushwood	det
2	brushwood	brushwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	aux:pass
4	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	4 set	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 said	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flames	det
11	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 said	nsubj
12	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 flames	acl
13	high	high	ADP	_	15 woman	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woman	det
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leaped	obl:agent
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	parataxis
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 lie	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 lie	punct
19	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 lie	advmod
20	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 lie	compound:prt
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 fire	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fire	det
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lie	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 children	punct
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fire	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rest	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rest	cc
29	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 lie	conj
30	yourselves	yourself	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 rest	obj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 going	punct
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 going	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 going	aux
34	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 said	ccomp
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 forest	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 forest	det
37	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 going	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 cut	mark
39	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 going	advcl
40	down	down	ADP	_	39 cut	compound:prt
41	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cut	obj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 come	punct
43	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	46 finished	advmod
44	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 finished	nsubj
45	’ve	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 finished	aux:pass
46	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 come	advcl
47	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 come	nsubj
48	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 come	aux
49	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 set	conj
50	back	back	ADV	_	49 come	advmod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 fetch	cc
52	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 come	conj
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 fetch	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	49 come	punct
55	”	"	PUNCT	_	49 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	set	past · passive		the brushwood			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme fire=Destination
2	leap	participle		the flames not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the flames				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	lie down in a quote	infinitive			the fire and children	now	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at fire=Location
5	rest in a quote	infinitive		yourselves			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yourself=Theme
6	go in a quote	present · progressive	we		the forest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
7	cut down in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	wood			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product
8	finish in a quote	present · passive		we			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
9	come back in a quote	future	we				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	fetch in a quote	infinitive	we not said here	you			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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