Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 42

She had no one to converse with and for laughing she had no spirits, so there up in the tree she sat, intent upon her work.

Who acts: sister · What happens: have, converse, laugh, sit, work · To what, where: one, spirits, intent, work

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 converse	mark
6	converse	converse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 one	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	6 converse	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 laughing	mark
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 had	advcl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 spirits	det
14	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 there	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 there	advmod
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 had	parataxis
18	up	up	ADV	_	17 there	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 tree	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 there	obl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sat	nsubj
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tree	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 intent	punct
25	intent	intent	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sat	obj
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 work	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 work	nmod:poss
28	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 intent	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	sister	no one		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	converse speech: other	to-infinitive	sister not said here	no one not said here		vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	gerund	sister not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	sister	no spirits		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient
5	sit	past	sister	intent	sister's work	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent intent=Theme upon work=Location
6	work		sister			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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