Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 26

Upstairs they waited for the boy, but as he still did not return, the man said to the woman: ‘Just go down into the cellar and see where Elsie is!’

Who acts: Hans, boy, return man, Elsie · What happens: wait, not return, say, go down, see, be · To what, where: woman, 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 (Hans, boy, return man, 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	Upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	3 waited	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waited	nsubj
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 boy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waited	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 return	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 return	nsubj
11	still	still	ADV	_	14 return	advmod
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 return	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 return	advmod
14	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 man	compound
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 return	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 woman	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
24	Just	just	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
25	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	parataxis
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 cellar	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cellar	det
29	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 see	cc
31	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 go	conj
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 is	advmod
33	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 is	nsubj
34	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 see	ccomp
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	Hans = han				for the boy; upstairs property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not return	past · do-support	boy			still		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the return man	the woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient
4	go down	infinitive			the cellar		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	see	infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	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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