The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 6

“No, wife,” said her husband, “that I won’t do; how could I find it in my heart to leave my children alone in the wood?

Who acts: wife · What happens: say, not do, find, leave · To what, where: husband, way, heart, children, 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 (wife), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wife	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 wife	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 husband	nmod:poss
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 do	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
14	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
15	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 do	advmod
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 husband	acl:relcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 find	punct
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 find	advmod
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 find	aux
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 find	nsubj
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 find	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 heart	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 heart	nmod:poss
25	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 leave	mark
27	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 find	advcl
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 children	nmod:poss
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 leave	obj
30	alone	alone	ADV	_	27 leave	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 wood	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wood	det
33	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 leave	obl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not do in a quote	future	wife	woman's husband not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality
3	find in a quote	could	wife	way	my heart		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	leave in a quote	to-infinitive	wife not said here	my children	the wood	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme in wood=Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/6/