The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 59

Then a big fire was lit again, and the mother said: “Just sit down there, children, and if you’re tired you can sleep a bit; we’re going into the forest to cut down wood, and in the evening when we’re finished we’ll come back to fetch you.”

Who acts: mother, you, we · What happens: lit, say, sit down, be, sleep, go · To what, where: big fire, children, bit, forest, wood, we · 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 (mother, you, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lit	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fire	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fire	amod
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lit	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lit	aux:pass
6	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 come	advcl
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 lit	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lit	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 sit	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 sit	punct
15	Just	just	ADV	_	16 sit	advmod
16	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 sit	advmod
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 sit	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 children	punct
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sit	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sleep	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sleep	cc
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 ’re	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 ’re	nsubj
25	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 sleep	advcl
26	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ’re	xcomp
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 sleep	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 sleep	aux
29	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sit	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 bit	det
31	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sleep	obl:unmarked
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 ’re	punct
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 ’re	nsubj
34	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lit	conj
35	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 ’re	xcomp
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 forest	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 forest	det
38	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 going	obl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 cut	mark
40	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 going	advcl
41	down	down	ADP	_	40 cut	compound:prt
42	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cut	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 evening	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 evening	cc
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 evening	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 evening	det
47	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lit	obl
48	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	51 finished	advmod
49	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 finished	nsubj
50	’re	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 finished	aux:pass
51	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lit	advcl
52	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 come	nsubj
53	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 come	aux
54	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
55	back	back	ADV	_	54 come	advmod
56	to	to	PART	_	57 fetch	mark
57	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 come	advcl
58	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	57 fetch	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	54 come	punct
60	”	"	PUNCT	_	54 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	past · passive		a big fire		then; again; evening		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sit down in a quote	infinitive		children	there		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	does a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you				tired property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sleep in a quote	can	you	a bit				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	be in a quote	present	we					tree rules
7	go in a quote	gerund	we not said here		the forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
8	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
9	finish in a quote	present · passive		we				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
10	come back in a quote	future	we					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	fetch in a quote	to-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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