Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 5

In the meantime the father was uneasy, and could not tell what made the young men stay so long.

Who acts: father, young men · What happens: be, not tell, make, stay · To what, where: meantime · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Seven Ravens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, young men), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uneasy	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 father	det
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uneasy	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 uneasy	cop
7	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 tell	advmod
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 uneasy	conj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tell	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 men	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 men	amod
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stay	nsubj
18	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 made	ccomp
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 long	advmod
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 stay	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 uneasy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the father	the meantime	uneasy property	tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert	could	the father not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	past				tree rules
4	stay	present	the young men		long property	vn exist-47.1 «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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