Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 55

Then it is not I,’ and went to another door; but when the people heard the jingling of the bells they would not open it, and she could get in nowhere.

Who acts: length, I, people, Hereupon · What happens: not be, go, hear, not open, get in · To what, where: I, door, jingling, length · 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 (length, I, people, Hereupon), 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	5 I	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 I	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 I	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 I	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 I	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 I	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 heard	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 heard	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 heard	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 people	det
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heard	nsubj
18	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 jingling	det
20	jingling	jingling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heard	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 bells	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bells	det
23	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 jingling	nmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 open	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 open	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 open	advmod
27	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 bells	acl:relcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 open	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 get	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 get	cc
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 get	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 get	aux
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 heard	ccomp
34	in	in	ADV	_	33 get	advmod
35	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 get	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	length	I		then		tree rules
2	go	past	I		another door			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
3	hear	past	the people	the jingling of the bells				tree rules
4	not open	would	people	length				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	get in	could	Hereupon				nowhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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