The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 68

On the third morning after they had left their father’s house they set about their wandering again, but only got deeper and deeper into the wood, and now they felt that if help did not come to them soon they must perish.

Who acts: Hansel, help · What happens: leave, set, wonder, get, feel, not come · To what, where: house, Hansel

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 (Hansel, help), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 set	obl
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 left	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 set	advcl
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 father	case
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 set	nsubj
14	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	about	about	SCONJ	_	17 wandering	mark
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wandering	nsubj
17	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 set	advcl
18	again	again	ADV	_	17 wandering	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 got	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 got	cc
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 got	advmod
22	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 set	parataxis
23	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 got	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 deeper	cc
25	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 deeper	conj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 wood	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wood	det
28	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 deeper	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 felt	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 felt	cc
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 felt	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 felt	nsubj
33	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 got	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 come	mark
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 come	mark
36	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 come	nsubj
37	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 come	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 come	advmod
39	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 felt	ccomp
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 come	obl
42	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 perish	advmod
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 perish	nsubj
44	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 perish	aux
45	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 come	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect	Hansel	Hansel's father's house				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
2	set	present	Hansel			morning		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	wonder speech: ask	gerund	Hansel			again		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	get	past					deep property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	feel	past	Hansel			now		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	not come a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	help		Hansel			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location
7	perish	must	Hansel				soon property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/35/68/