Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 62

For many nights afterwards she came constantly, but never spoke a word; and the nurse saw her always, but she would not trust herself to speak about it to any one.

Who acts: nurse · What happens: come, not speak, see, not trust, speak · To what, where: word, Queen, nurse, one · 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), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 nights	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nights	amod
3	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spoke	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 spoke	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 spoke	advmod
11	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 word	det
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spoke	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 nurse	det
17	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	obj
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 saw	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 trust	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 trust	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 trust	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 trust	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 trust	advmod
26	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	advcl
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 trust	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 speak	mark
29	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 trust	xcomp
30	about	about	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 speak	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 one	case
33	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	34 one	det
34	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 speak	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	nurse			night	afterwards, constantly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not speak speech: other	past	nurse not said here	a word				tree rules
3	see	past	the nurse	Queen			always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	not trust	would	nurse	nurse				tree rules
5	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	nurse not said here		any one		about castle	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic to one=Co-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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