Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 45

He could not conceive how this came to pass, for he never saw a human being in his house, and no one could have concealed himself in it.

Who acts: dinner, this · What happens: not conceive, come, pass, not see, be, conceal · To what, where: human house, one, house

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 (dinner, this), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 conceive	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 conceive	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 conceive	advmod
4	conceive	conceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 came	advmod
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 conceive	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pass	mark
9	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saw	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 saw	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 saw	advmod
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 conceive	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 house	det
16	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 house	amod
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 house	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 house	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 house	nmod:poss
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 concealed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 concealed	cc
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 concealed	nsubj:pass
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 concealed	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 concealed	aux
27	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 saw	conj
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 concealed	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 concealed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 conceive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not conceive	could	dinner			vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	this			tree rules
3	pass	to-infinitive	this not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not see	past	dinner			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	gerund			dinner's human house	tree rules
6	conceal	could · perfect · passive		no one	house	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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