Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 45

Hans had been at home for a long time, but Elsie did not come; then said he: ‘What a clever Elsie I have; she is so industrious that she does not even come home to eat.’

Who acts: Hans, Elsie, I · What happens: be, not come, say, have, eat · To what, where: home, clever 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, Elsie, 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	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 home	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 home	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 home	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 home	case
5	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
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	5 home	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 come	cc
12	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 come	nsubj
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	5 home	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 said	advmod
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 home	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	ccomp
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 he	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 Elsie	punct
22	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	25 Elsie	det
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 Elsie	det
24	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Elsie	amod
25	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 he	conj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 Elsie	acl:relcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 industrious	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 industrious	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 industrious	cop
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 industrious	advmod
32	industrious	industrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 come	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 come	nsubj
35	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 come	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 come	advmod
37	even	even	ADV	_	38 come	advmod
38	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 industrious	ccomp
39	home	home	ADV	_	38 come	advmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 eat	mark
41	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 come	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 industrious	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	32 industrious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	Hans		home	time		tree rules
2	not come	past · do-support	Elsie					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Hans not said here			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	have	present	I	what clever Elsie not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elsie=Patient
5	is	present	Elsie				industrious property	tree rules
6	not come	present · do-support	Elsie				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	eat	to-infinitive	Elsie not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «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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