Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 35

‘Come,’ said Hans, ‘more understanding than that is not needed for my household, as you are such a clever Elsie, I will have you,’ and seized her hand, took her upstairs with him, and married her.

Who acts: Hans, you, I · What happens: come, say, not need, be, have, seize · To what, where: that, you, hand, Elsie · 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, you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 understanding	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 understanding	punct
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 understanding	advmod
10	understanding	understanding	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 needed	mark
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 needed	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 needed	aux:pass
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 needed	advmod
15	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 understanding	advcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 household	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 household	nmod:poss
18	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 needed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Elsie	punct
20	as	as	ADP	_	26 Elsie	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 Elsie	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 Elsie	cop
23	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	26 Elsie	det:predet
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 Elsie	det
25	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Elsie	amod
26	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 needed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 have	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 seized	cc
35	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 hand	nmod:poss
37	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seized	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 took	punct
39	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 took	obj
41	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	39 took	advmod
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 took	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 married	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 married	cc
46	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 took	conj
47	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 married	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Hans				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not need	present · passive		that		for my household	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
4	is	present	you			as such clever Elsie	tree rules
5	have	future	I	you			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
6	seize	past	Hans not said here	Elsie's hand			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
7	take	past			Elsie	with child; upstairs property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
8	marry	past		Elsie			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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