Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 10

Then she placed the can before her, and turned the tap, and while the beer was running she would not let her eyes be idle, but looked up at the wall, and after much peering here and there, saw a pick-axe exactly above her, which the masons had accidentally left there.

Who acts: Clever, beer, Hans · What happens: place, turn, run, not let, be, look up · To what, where: tap, Hans, pick axe, masons

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clever, beer, Hans), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 placed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 placed	nsubj
3	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 can	det
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	advcl
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 placed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 turned	cc
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tap	det
12	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 running	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 running	cc
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 running	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 beer	det
17	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 running	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 running	aux
19	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 placed	advcl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 let	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 let	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 let	advmod
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 running	ccomp
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 let	obj
26	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
27	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 be	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 looked	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 looked	cc
30	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 looked	compound:prt
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 wall	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wall	det
34	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 looked	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 saw	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 saw	cc
37	after	after	SCONJ	_	39 peering	mark
38	much	much	ADV	_	39 peering	advmod
39	peering	peer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 saw	advcl
40	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 peering	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 there	cc
42	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 here	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 peering	punct
44	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	parataxis
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 axe	det
46	pick	pick	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 axe	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 pick	punct
48	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 saw	obj
49	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	51 her	advmod
50	above	above	ADP	_	51 her	case
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 saw	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 left	punct
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 left	obj
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 masons	det
55	masons	mason	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 left	nsubj:pass
56	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 left	aux
57	accidentally	accidentally	ADV	_	58 left	advmod
58	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 saw	conj
59	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	58 left	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	Clever			before Hans; then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before she=Destination
2	turn	past	Clever not said here	the tap				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tap=Theme
3	run	past · progressive	the beer					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	not let	would	Clever	Hans				tree rules
5	be	infinitive	Hans not said here				idle property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	look up	past	Clever not said here				at the wall	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wall=Theme
7	peer	gerund			here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
8	see	past		a pick axe			above Clever	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer axe=Stimulus
9	leave	past · perfect · passive		the masons	there		accidentally property	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute

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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