Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 50

Then she was alarmed, and became uncertain whether she really was Clever Elsie or not, and said: ‘Is it I, or is it not I?’

Who acts: Clever, length, I · What happens: alarm, become, be, say · To what, where: Clever, Clever Elsie, I, step · 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 (Clever, length, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 alarmed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 alarmed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alarmed	aux:pass
4	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 became	cc
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alarmed	parataxis
8	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 became	xcomp
9	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	14 Elsie	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 Elsie	nsubj
11	really	really	ADV	_	14 Elsie	advmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Elsie	cop
13	Clever	Clever	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Elsie	compound
14	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 uncertain	conj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 not	cc
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 Elsie	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 became	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 I	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 I	punct
22	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 I	cop
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 I	nsubj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 it	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 it	cc
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 it	cop
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 I	conj
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 I	advmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 it	nsubj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 alarmed	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 alarmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	alarm	past · passive		Clever	then		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	become	past				uncertain property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is a	past	Clever	Clever Elsie			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	length	I			tree rules
6	is a	present	I	step			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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