Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 61

The nurse asked in the morning of the guards if any one had passed into the castle during the night; but they answered, "No, we have not seen anybody."

Who acts: nurse, one, guards, we · What happens: ask, pass, answer, not see · To what, where: castle, anybody · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Little Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse, one, guards, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nurse	det
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 morning	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 morning	det
6	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 guards	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guards	det
9	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 morning	nmod
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 passed	mark
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passed	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 passed	aux
14	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 asked	advcl
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 castle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 castle	det
17	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passed	obl
18	during	during	ADP	_	20 night	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passed	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 answered	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 answered	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 answered	nsubj
24	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seen	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 seen	punct
27	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	32 seen	discourse
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 No	punct
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 seen	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 seen	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 seen	advmod
32	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 answered	ccomp
33	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 seen	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the nurse			morning	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pass a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	any one		the castle	night	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location
3	answer speech: assert	past	guards = guard				tree rules
4	not see in a quote	present · perfect	we	anybody			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anybody=Stimulus

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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