Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Salad, sentence 52

The messenger sat all this time with the beautiful young lady, and as nobody came with the salad and she longed to taste it, she said, ‘I don’t know where the salad can be.’

Who acts: messenger, nobody, I, salad · What happens: sit, come, long, taste, say, not know · To what, where: salad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Salad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger, nobody, I, salad), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 messenger	det
2	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 time	det:predet
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl:unmarked
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 lady	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lady	det
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lady	amod
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lady	amod
11	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	parataxis
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 salad	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 salad	det
19	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 longed	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 longed	nsubj
22	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 taste	mark
24	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 longed	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 taste	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 know	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 know	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 know	nsubj
32	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 know	aux
33	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 know	advmod
34	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 said	ccomp
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 be	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 salad	det
37	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 be	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 be	aux
39	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 know	ccomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the messenger		time	with the beautiful young lady	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	nobody			with the salad	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	long	past	messenger				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	taste not said to happen	to-infinitive	messenger not said here	salad			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
5	say speech: assert	past	messenger				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not know	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	can	can	the salad				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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