Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 14

Then the woman said to the servant: ‘Just go down into the cellar and see where Elsie is.’

Who acts: woman, Elsie · What happens: say, go down, see, be · To what, where: cellar · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, Elsie), 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	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 servant	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 servant	det
7	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
10	Just	just	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 cellar	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cellar	det
15	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 see	cc
17	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 go	conj
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 is	advmod
19	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 is	nsubj
20	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 see	ccomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the woman		then	to the servant	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to servant=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	go down	infinitive		the cellar		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	see	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	be	present	Elsie				vn exist-47.1 «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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