The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 42

Not long afterward there was again great dearth in the land, and the children heard their mother address their father thus in bed one night: “Everything is eaten up once more; we have only half a loaf in the house, and when that’s done it’s all up with us.

Who acts: children, long great dearth, we · What happens: be, hear, address, eat up, have, do · To what, where: long great dearth, land, mother, father, bed, Everything · 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 (children, long great dearth, 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dearth	amod
3	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	5 was	advmod
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dearth	cop
6	again	again	ADV	_	7 great	advmod
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dearth	amod
8	dearth	dearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 address	nsubj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 land	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 land	det
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dearth	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 heard	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 children	det
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heard	nsubj
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dearth	conj
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obj
19	address	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 address	obj
22	thus	thus	ADV	_	24 bed	advmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 bed	case
24	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 address	obl
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 night	nummod
26	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 address	obl:unmarked
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 eaten	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 eaten	punct
29	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	31 eaten	nsubj:pass
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 eaten	aux:pass
31	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 address	conj
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 eaten	compound:prt
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 more	advmod
34	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 eaten	advmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 have	punct
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 have	nsubj
37	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 address	parataxis
38	only	only	ADV	_	41 loaf	advmod
39	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	41 loaf	det:predet
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 loaf	det
41	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 have	obj
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 house	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 house	det
44	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 loaf	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 done	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 done	cc
47	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	50 done	advmod
48	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 done	nsubj:pass
49	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 done	aux:pass
50	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 have	advcl
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 done	obj
52	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 have	conj
53	all	all	ADV	_	54 up	advmod
54	up	up	ADV	_	52 ’s	advmod
55	with	with	ADP	_	56 us	case
56	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 ’s	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 address	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past		long great dearth	the land		tree rules
2	hear	past	the children	children's mother			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus
3	address	present	long great dearth	children's father	bed	night	tree rules
4	eat up in a quote	present · passive		Everything			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	have in a quote	present	we	half loaf	the house		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Patient
6	do in a quote	present · passive		that			tree rules

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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