Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 22

At first she did not know what was the matter with her, but found at length that it was homesickness; although she was many times better off here than at home, still she had a longing to be there.

Who acts: girl, length · What happens: not know, be, find, have · To what, where: matter, length, homesickness, longing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, length), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 know	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 know	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 know	advmod
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 matter	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 matter	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 matter	det
10	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	ccomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 matter	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 know	parataxis
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 length	case
17	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 found	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 homesickness	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 homesickness	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 homesickness	cop
21	homesickness	homesickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 length	acl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 better	punct
23	although	although	SCONJ	_	28 better	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 better	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 better	cop
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 times	amod
27	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 better	obl:unmarked
28	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 found	conj
29	off	off	ADP	_	28 better	compound:prt
30	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 better	advmod
31	than	than	ADP	_	33 home	case
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 home	case
33	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 better	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
35	still	still	ADV	_	37 had	advmod
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 better	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 longing	det
39	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	42 there	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 there	cop
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 longing	acl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	girl					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past		the matter			with girl	tree rules
3	find	past			length			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	length	homesickness				tree rules
5	is	past	girl		here	time	than home; good property	tree rules
6	have	past	girl	a longing		still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Patient
7	is	to-infinitive	girl not said here	a longing not said here			there property	tree rules

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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