Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 31
The bridegroom stayed upstairs alone for a long time; then as no one would come back he thought: ‘They must be waiting for me below: I too must go there and see what they are about.’
Who acts: bridegroom, one, Hans, I · What happens: stay, come back, think, wait, go, see
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 (bridegroom, one, Hans, I), 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 bridegroom | det |
| 2 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 3 stayed | advmod |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 stayed | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 one | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 one | case |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stayed | conj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 come | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | advcl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 waiting | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 waiting | punct |
| 22 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 waiting | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 waiting | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 waiting | aux |
| 25 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stayed | advcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 waiting | obl |
| 28 | below | below | ADV | _ | 25 waiting | advmod |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 go | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 go | nsubj |
| 31 | too | too | ADV | _ | 33 go | advmod |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 go | aux |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stayed | parataxis |
| 34 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 go | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 see | cc |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 go | conj |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 about | obl |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 about | nsubj |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 about | cop |
| 40 | about | about | ADV | _ | 36 see | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | the bridegroom | time | alone, upstairs property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come back | would | no one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | bridegroom | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wait | must · progressive | Hans = han | for me; below property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | must | I | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is | present | Hans = han | about property | tree rules |
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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