Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 63

When some time had passed away, the Queen one night began to speak, and said--

Who acts: time, one night · What happens: pass away, begin, speak, say · To what, where: Queen · 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 (time, one night), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 passed	advmod
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	aux
5	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 said	ccomp
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 passed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Queen	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Queen	det
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 passed	obl
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 night	nummod
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 speak	mark
14	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass away	past · perfect	some time	the Queen	away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	begin	past	one night			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	one night not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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