Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 30

But when he got into the cellar, and they were all sitting together crying, and he heard the reason, and that Elsie’s child was the cause, and the Elsie might perhaps bring one into the world some day, and that he might be killed by the pick-axe, if he should happen to be sitting beneath it, drawing beer just at the very time when it fell down, he cried: ‘Oh, what a clever Elsie!’ and sat down, and likewise wept with them.

Who acts: thirst, Hans, child, Elsie, beer · What happens: get, sit, cry, hear, be, bring · To what, where: cellar, reason, cause, one, world, thirst

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 (thirst, Hans, child, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 heard	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 got	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	advcl
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 cellar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cellar	det
7	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sitting	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sitting	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sitting	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sitting	aux
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 sitting	advmod
13	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 got	advcl
14	together	together	ADV	_	13 sitting	advmod
15	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sitting	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 heard	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heard	nsubj
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 reason	det
21	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cause	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cause	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 cause	mark
25	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 child	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Elsie	case
27	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cause	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 cause	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cause	det
30	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 bring	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bring	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Elsie	det
34	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 bring	nsubj
35	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 bring	aux
36	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	37 bring	advmod
37	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 heard	conj
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 bring	obj
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 world	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 world	det
41	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bring	obl
42	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	43 day	det
43	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bring	obl:unmarked
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 killed	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 killed	cc
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 killed	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 killed	nsubj:pass
48	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 killed	aux
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 killed	aux:pass
50	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 heard	conj
51	by	by	ADP	_	55 axe	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 axe	det
53	pick	pick	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 axe	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 pick	punct
55	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 killed	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 happen	punct
57	if	if	SCONJ	_	60 happen	mark
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 happen	nsubj
59	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 happen	aux
60	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 killed	conj
61	to	to	PART	_	63 sitting	mark
62	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	63 sitting	aux
63	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	60 happen	advcl
64	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	65 it	case
65	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 sitting	obl
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 drawing	punct
67	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	63 sitting	conj
68	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 drawing	obj
69	just	just	ADV	_	73 time	advmod
70	at	at	ADP	_	73 time	case
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 time	det
72	very	very	ADV	_	73 time	advmod
73	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 drawing	obl
74	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	76 fell	advmod
75	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	76 fell	nsubj
76	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 drawing	advcl
77	down	down	ADV	_	76 fell	advmod
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 cried	punct
79	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	80 cried	nsubj
80	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	parataxis
81	:	:	PUNCT	_	85 what	punct
82	‘	'	PUNCT	_	85 what	punct
83	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	85 what	discourse
84	,	,	PUNCT	_	83 Oh	punct
85	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	80 cried	obl
86	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	88 Elsie	det
87	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	88 Elsie	amod
88	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	85 what	acl:relcl
89	!	!	PUNCT	_	88 Elsie	punct
90	’	'	PUNCT	_	88 Elsie	punct
91	and	and	CCONJ	_	92 sat	cc
92	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	80 cried	conj
93	down	down	ADP	_	92 sat	compound:prt
94	,	,	PUNCT	_	97 wept	punct
95	and	and	CCONJ	_	97 wept	cc
96	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	97 wept	advmod
97	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	conj
98	with	with	ADP	_	99 them	case
99	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	97 wept	obl
100	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	thirst		the cellar			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into cellar=Destination
2	sit	past · progressive	Hans = han				all, together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express	gerund	Hans = han not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past	thirst	the reason				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer reason=Stimulus
5	is a	past	Elsie's child	the cause				tree rules
6	bring	might	the Elsie	one	the world	day	perhaps property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme into world=Destination
7	kill	might · passive		thirst			by the pick axe	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	happen a condition, not said to happen	should	thirst					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	sit	to-infinitive · progressive	thirst not said here		cellar			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath it=Location
10	draw	gerund	thirst not said here	beer		time		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme
11	fall down	past	beer				down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	cry speech: express	past	thirst					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
13	sit down	past	thirst not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
14	weep	past	thirst not said here				with Hans = han; likewise 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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