Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 4

At length a man came from a distance and wooed her, who was called Hans; but he stipulated that Clever Elsie should be really smart.

Who acts: man, Clever · What happens: come, woo, call, stipulate, be · To what, where: length, daughter · 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, Clever), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 distance	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 distance	det
8	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wooed	cc
10	wooed	woo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wooed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 called	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 called	aux:pass
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 wooed	parataxis
16	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 called	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 stipulated	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 stipulated	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stipulated	nsubj
20	stipulated	stipulate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 smart	mark
22	Clever	Clever	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 smart	nsubj
23	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Clever	flat
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 smart	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 smart	cop
26	really	really	ADV	_	27 smart	advmod
27	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stipulated	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	a man		length	from a distance	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from distance=Initial_Location
2	woo	past	a man not said here	daughter			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	call	past · passive					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	stipulate	past	man				tree rules
5	is	should	Clever			smart 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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