Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 7

When they were sitting at dinner and had eaten, the mother said: ‘Elsie, go into the cellar and fetch some beer.’

Who acts: flies, mother, Elsie · What happens: sit, eat, say, go, fetch · To what, where: dinner, cellar, beer · 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 (flies, mother, Elsie), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 sitting	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sitting	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	aux
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 dinner	case
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eaten	cc
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 eaten	aux
9	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sitting	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sitting	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
16	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 go	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Elsie	punct
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 cellar	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cellar	det
21	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fetch	cc
23	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 go	conj
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 beer	det
25	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fetch	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	flies = fly		dinner	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at dinner=Location
2	eat	past · perfect	flies = fly not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	infinitive	Elsie		the cellar	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cellar=Initial_Location
5	fetch	present	Elsie not said here	some beer		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme

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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