Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 30

The sexton's wife waited some time for her husband, but he did not come; so at last she became anxious, woke the boy, and asked him if he knew where her husband was, who had gone before him to the belfry.

Who acts: wife, boy, husband · What happens: wait, not come, become, wake, ask, know · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, boy, husband), 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 sexton	det
2	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sexton	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waited	nsubj
5	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waited	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 husband	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 time	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 come	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 come	advmod
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 waited	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 became	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	22 became	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 so	obl
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 became	nsubj
22	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 waited	parataxis
23	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 became	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 woke	punct
25	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 became	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 boy	det
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 woke	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 asked	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 asked	cc
30	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 waited	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 asked	iobj
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 knew	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 knew	nsubj
34	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 asked	advcl
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 gone	advmod
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 husband	nmod:poss
37	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 gone	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 gone	cop
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 gone	punct
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 gone	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 gone	aux
42	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 knew	ccomp
43	before	before	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 gone	obl
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 belfry	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 belfry	det
47	belfry	belfry	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 gone	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the sexton's wife			time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not come	past · do-support	boy					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	past	wife				anxious property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	wake	past	wife not said here	the boy				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
5	ask speech: ask	past	the sexton's wife not said here		boy			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	know a condition, not said to happen	past	boy					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	is	past · perfect	wife's husband			before boy	to the belfry; go property	tree rules

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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