Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 51

But she knew not what answer to make to this, and stood for a time in doubt; at length she thought: ‘I will go home and ask if it be I, or if it be not I, they will be sure to know.’

Who acts: Clever, I, length · What happens: not know, make, stand, think, go, ask · To what, where: answer, doubt, length, I · 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, I, length), 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	_	3 knew	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 knew	advmod
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 answer	obj
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 this	case
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 make	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stood	cc
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 doubt	case
18	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 length	case
21	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thought	obl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 thought	nsubj
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 go	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 go	aux
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 thought	ccomp
29	home	home	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ask	cc
31	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 go	conj
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 I	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 I	nsubj
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 I	cop
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 ask	ccomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 sure	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 sure	cc
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 I	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 I	nsubj
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 I	cop
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 I	advmod
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 sure	nsubj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 I	punct
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 sure	nsubj
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 sure	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 sure	cop
47	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 go	advcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 know	mark
49	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 sure	xcomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past	Clever	answer				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus
2	make	to-infinitive	Clever not said here				to this	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	stand	past	Clever not said here		doubt	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doubt=Location
4	think speech: other	past	Clever		length			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	go	future	I				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	infinitive	I not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	length	I				tree rules
8	not is a a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	length	I				tree rules
9	is	future	I				sure property	tree rules
10	know	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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