Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 23

After waiting awhile, she went to Mother Holle and said, ‘I am so homesick, that I cannot stay with you any longer, for although I am so happy here, I must return to my own people.’

Who acts: woman, I · What happens: wait, go, say, be, not stay, return · To what, where: Mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, I), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 waiting	mark
2	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 went	advcl
3	awhile	awhile	ADV	_	2 waiting	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 waiting	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Mother	case
8	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
9	Holle	Holle	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Mother	flat
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 homesick	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 homesick	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 homesick	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 homesick	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 homesick	advmod
17	homesick	homesick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stay	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 stay	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 stay	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 stay	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 stay	advmod
23	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 you	case
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 stay	obl
26	any	any	ADV	_	27 longer	advmod
27	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 stay	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 happy	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 happy	mark
30	although	although	SCONJ	_	34 happy	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 happy	nsubj
32	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 happy	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 happy	advmod
34	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stay	conj
35	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 happy	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 return	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 return	nsubj
38	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 return	aux
39	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 stay	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	43 people	case
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 people	nmod:poss
42	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 people	amod
43	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 return	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	woman not said here			awhile property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	woman	Mother			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	woman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is	present	I			homesick property	tree rules
5	not stay	can	I			with you; long property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location
6	is	present	I		here	happy property	tree rules
7	return	must	I			to my own people result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to people=Result

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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