Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 25

Then said the boy: ‘What a clever Elsie we have!’ and sat down by her, and likewise began to howl loudly.

Who acts: boy, clever Elsie · What happens: say, have, sit down, begin, howl · 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 (boy, clever 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	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
7	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	10 Elsie	det
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Elsie	det
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Elsie	amod
10	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 have	nsubj
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sat	cc
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sat	compound:prt
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
22	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	23 began	advmod
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 howl	mark
25	howl	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	25 howl	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the boy	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	what clever Elsie			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sit down	past	the boy not said here		by Elsie	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by she=Location
4	begin	past			likewise property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	howl	to-infinitive			loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «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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