Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 41

The poor girl remained there a long time, but at length, as he did not return at all, she was sad, and changed herself into a flower, and thought: ‘Someone will surely come this way, and trample me down.’

Who acts: poor girl, Roland, girl, Someone · What happens: remain, not return, be, change, think, come · To what, where: all, girl, flower, way, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor girl, Roland, girl, Someone), 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	3 girl	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remained	nsubj
4	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 remained	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remained	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 length	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 length	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 length	case
12	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remained	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 return	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 return	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 return	nsubj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 return	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 return	advmod
18	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 remained	parataxis
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 return	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sad	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sad	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sad	cop
24	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 return	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 changed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 changed	cc
27	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remained	conj
28	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 changed	obj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 flower	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 flower	det
31	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 changed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thought	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 thought	cc
34	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remained	conj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 come	punct
36	‘	'	PUNCT	_	40 come	punct
37	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	40 come	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 come	aux
39	surely	surely	ADV	_	40 come	advmod
40	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 thought	ccomp
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 way	det
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 come	obl:unmarked
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 trample	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 trample	cc
45	trample	trample	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 come	conj
46	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 trample	obj
47	down	down	ADP	_	45 trample	compound:prt
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 come	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	40 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the poor girl		there	time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not return	past · do-support	Roland		all			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	girl				sad property	tree rules
4	change	past	the poor girl not said here	girl			into a flower result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into flower=Result
5	think speech: other	past	the poor girl not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	come	future	Someone	this way			surely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	trample down	infinitive	Someone not said here	me				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: «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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