Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 8

Then Clever Elsie took the pitcher from the wall, went into the cellar, and tapped the lid briskly as she went, so that the time might not appear long.

Who acts: Clever, time · What happens: take, go, tap, not appear · To what, where: pitcher, wall, cellar, lid

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, time), 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 took	advmod
2	Clever	Clever	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
3	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Clever	flat
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pitcher	det
6	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 wall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wall	det
9	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 cellar	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cellar	det
14	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tapped	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tapped	cc
17	tapped	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lid	det
19	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tapped	obj
20	briskly	briskly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tapped	xcomp
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 went	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tapped	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 appear	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	31 appear	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 appear	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 time	det
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 appear	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 appear	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 appear	advmod
31	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	parataxis
32	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 appear	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Clever	the pitcher	the wall	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme from wall=Initial_Location
2	go	past	Clever not said here		the cellar			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cellar=Initial_Location
3	tap	past	Clever not said here	the lid			briskly property	vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent lid=Location
4	go	past	Clever					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not appear	might	the time				long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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