Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Robber Bridegroom, sentence 9

She tried to excuse herself by saying that she would not be able to find the way thither.

Who acts: miller · What happens: try, excuse, say, not be, find · To what, where: miller, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Robber Bridegroom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 excuse	mark
4	excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 excuse	obj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 saying	mark
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 excuse	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 able	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 able	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 able	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 able	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 able	cop
13	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 saying	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 find	mark
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 able	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	obj
18	thither	thither	ADV	_	15 find	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	miller			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	excuse not said to happen	to-infinitive	miller not said here	miller		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	miller not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is	would	miller		able property	tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive	miller not said here	the way	thither property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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: «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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