The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 3

One night, as he was tossing about in bed, full of cares and worry, he sighed and said to his wife: “What’s to become of us? how are we to support our poor children, now that we have nothing more for ourselves?”

Who acts: boy, we · What happens: toss, sigh, say, become, be, have · To what, where: One night, wife, nothing · 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 (boy, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 night	nummod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sighed	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tossing	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 tossing	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tossing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tossing	aux
7	tossing	toss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 night	acl
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 bed	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tossing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 full	punct
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bed	amod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 cares	case
14	cares	care	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 full	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 worry	cc
16	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cares	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sighed	nsubj
19	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sighed	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 wife	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 ’s	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 ’s	punct
27	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 ’s	nsubj
28	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sighed	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 become	mark
30	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ’s	xcomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 us	case
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 become	obl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 ’s	punct
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 support	advmod
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 support	cop
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 support	nsubj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 support	mark
38	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ’s	advcl
39	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 children	nmod:poss
40	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 children	amod
41	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 support	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 have	punct
43	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 have	advmod
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 have	mark
45	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 have	nsubj
46	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 support	conj
47	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	46 have	obj
48	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	47 nothing	amod
49	for	for	ADP	_	50 ourselves	case
50	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	48 more	obl
51	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 sighed	punct
52	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past · progressive	boy	One night not said here			about bed	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent night=Theme about bed=Destination
2	sigh	past	boy			night		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: ask	past	boy not said here		boy's wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
4	become in a quote	to-infinitive	boy not said here				of us	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	is in a quote	present	we				support property	tree rules
6	have in a quote	present	we	nothing		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient

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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