Grimm's Fairy Stories, Mother Holle, sentence 23

At last she said to the old woman, "I have a longing for home; and however well off I am down here, I cannot stay any longer; I must go up again to my own people."

Who acts: girl · What happens: say, have, be, not stay, go up · To what, where: old woman, last, 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), 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 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 woman	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 longing	det
14	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 home	case
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 longing	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 here	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 here	cc
19	however	however	ADV	_	25 here	advmod
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 however	fixed
21	off	off	ADP	_	25 here	case
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 here	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 here	cop
24	down	down	ADV	_	25 here	advmod
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stay	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 stay	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 stay	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 stay	advmod
30	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 here	conj
31	any	any	ADV	_	32 longer	advmod
32	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 stay	advmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 go	nsubj
35	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 go	aux
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 go	compound:prt
38	again	again	ADV	_	36 go	advmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	42 people	case
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 people	nmod:poss
41	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 people	amod
42	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 go	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	girl		the old woman	last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	girl	a longing				for home	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Patient
3	is in a quote	present	girl					down, here, however property	tree rules
4	not stay in a quote	can	girl					long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go up in a quote	must	girl				again	to my own people	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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