The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 4

“I’ll tell you what, husband,” answered the woman; “early to-morrow morning we’ll take the children out into the thickest part of the wood; there we shall light a fire for them and give them each a piece of bread; then we’ll go on to our work and leave them alone.

Who acts: woman, we, our · What happens: tell, answer, take out, light, give, go on · To what, where: husband, you, children, thickest part, fire, piece · 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 (woman, we, our), 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 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 husband	punct
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 early	punct
16	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 take	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 morning	case
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 to	punct
19	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 morning	compound
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obl
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 take	nsubj
22	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 take	aux
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 children	det
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 take	obj
26	out	out	ADV	_	23 take	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	30 part	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 part	det
29	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 part	amod
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 wood	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wood	det
33	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 part	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 light	punct
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 light	expl
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 light	nsubj
37	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 light	aux
38	light	light	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 take	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 fire	det
40	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 light	obj
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 light	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 give	cc
44	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 take	conj
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 give	iobj
46	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	48 piece	det
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 piece	det
48	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 give	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 bread	case
50	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 piece	nmod
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 go	punct
52	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	55 go	advmod
53	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 go	nsubj
54	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 go	aux
55	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	ccomp
56	on	on	ADV	_	55 go	advmod
57	to	to	ADP	_	59 work	case
58	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 work	nmod:poss
59	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 go	obl
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 leave	cc
61	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 go	conj
62	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 leave	obj
63	alone	alone	ADV	_	61 leave	advmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the woman = woman	husband	you				tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the woman						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take out in a quote	future	we	the children		the thickest part of the wood	morning	early, out property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
4	light in a quote	shall	we	a fire		there		for children = child	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fire=Product for they=Beneficiary
5	give in a quote	infinitive	we not said here	each piece of bread	children = child				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient piece=Theme
6	go on in a quote	future	we				then	to our work	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	leave in a quote	infinitive	we not said here	children = child				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	work in a quote		our						nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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