Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Little Brother and Sister, sentence 66

The nurse made no reply; but, when she had disappeared, went to the King, and told him.

Who acts: nurse · What happens: make, have, go, tell · To what, where: reply, King · 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nurse	det
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 reply	det
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 but	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 had	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	advcl
12	disappeared	disappeared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 had	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 King	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 King	det
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	iobj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the nurse	no reply			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reply=Product
2	have	past	nurse			disappeared property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	the nurse not said here			to the King	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
4	tell speech: assert	past	the nurse not said here		King		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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