Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 13
Those upstairs waited for the drink, but Clever Elsie still did not come.
Who acts: Those, Clever · What happens: wait, not come
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 (Those, Clever), 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 3 waited | advmod |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 drink | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 drink | det |
| 6 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 come | cc |
| 9 | Clever | Clever | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 come | nsubj |
| 10 | Elsie | Elsie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Clever | flat |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 come | advmod |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 waited | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Those | for the drink; upstairs property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not come | past · do-support | Clever | still | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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