Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 46

But when evening came and she still stayed away, Hans went out to see what she had cut, but nothing was cut, and she was lying among the corn asleep.

Who acts: evening, Elsie, Hans · What happens: come, stay away, go out, see, cut, lie · To what, where: nothing, corn

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 (evening, Elsie, Hans), 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	_	12 went	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stayed	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stayed	nsubj
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 stayed	advmod
8	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 stayed	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
11	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 went	xcomp
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 see	obj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cut	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cut	aux
19	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 what	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cut	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 cut	cc
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 cut	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cut	aux:pass
24	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 went	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lying	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lying	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lying	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lying	aux
29	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 cut	advcl
30	among	among	ADP	_	32 corn	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 corn	det
32	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lying	obl
33	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lying	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	evening					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay away	past	Elsie			still	away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go out	past	Hans				out property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	Hans not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
5	cut	past · perfect	Elsie					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	cut	past · passive		nothing				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
7	lie	past · progressive	Elsie		the corn			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among corn=Location

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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