The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 8

“Oh! you fool,” said she, “then we must all four die of hunger, and you may just as well go and plane the boards for our coffins”; and she left him no peace till he consented.

Who acts: you, woman, we, husband · What happens: fool, say, die, go, leave, consent · To what, where: boards, husband · 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 (you, woman, we, husband), 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	_	5 fool	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 fool	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 fool	nsubj
5	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fool	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 fool	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 die	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 die	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 die	advmod
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 die	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 die	aux
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 four	advmod
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 die	nummod
17	die	die	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 hunger	case
19	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 die	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 go	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
24	just	just	ADV	_	27 go	advmod
25	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	27 go	cc
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 as	fixed
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 plane	cc
29	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 boards	det
31	boards	board	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 go	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 coffins	case
33	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 coffins	nmod:poss
34	coffins	coffin	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 boards	nmod
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 left	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 left	cc
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 left	nsubj
39	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 left	obj
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 peace	det
42	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 left	obj
43	till	till	SCONJ	_	45 consented	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 consented	nsubj
45	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 left	advcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fool in a quote		you				tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	die in a quote	must	we		then	of hunger	tree rules
4	go in a quote	may	you	the boards		for our coffins	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location board=Theme
5	leave	past	woman	husband			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme peace=Attribute
6	consent	past	husband				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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