Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 21

The boy went down, and there sat Clever Elsie and the girl both weeping together.

Who acts: boy, girl · What happens: go down, sit, weep · To what, where: Clever Elsie

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 (boy, girl), 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	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sat	cc
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 sat	expl
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
9	Clever	Clever	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Elsie	compound
10	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 weeping	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 weeping	nsubj
14	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	15 weeping	nsubj
15	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sat	conj
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 weeping	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the boy			down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sit	past		Clever Elsie	there		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location elsie=Theme
3	weep	gerund	the girl			together property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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