Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 29

The man upstairs waited a short time, but as his wife did not come back and his thirst grew ever greater, he said: ‘I must go into the cellar myself and see where Elsie is.’

Who acts: man, thirst, I, Elsie · What happens: wait, not come back, grow, say, go, see · To what, where: myself, 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 (man, thirst, I, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	nsubj
3	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	4 waited	advmod
4	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 come	cc
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 wife	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 come	advmod
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 waited	conj
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 grew	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 thirst	nmod:poss
19	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grew	nsubj
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 come	conj
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 greater	advmod
22	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 grew	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 go	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 cellar	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cellar	det
33	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 go	obl
34	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	30 go	obl:unmarked
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 see	cc
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 go	conj
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 is	advmod
38	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 is	nsubj
39	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 see	ccomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct
41	’	'	SYM	_	4 waited	discourse

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the man			time	upstairs property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not come back	past · do-support	the man not said here				as man's wife	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	man's thirst				great property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	thirst					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go	must	I	myself	the cellar			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cellar=Initial_Location
6	see	infinitive	I not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	be	present	Elsie					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	thirst		man					nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=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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