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description: After a while, as the maid did not come back, and those upstairs were thirsty for the beer, the man said to the boy: ‘Just go down into the cellar and see where Elsie and the girl are.’ Who acts: those, man. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie, with its dependency tree a
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 20

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After a while, as the maid did not come back, and those upstairs were thirsty for the beer, the man said to the boy: ‘Just go down into the cellar and see where Elsie and the girl are.’

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**Who acts:** those, man · **What happens:** not come back, be, say, go down, see · **To what, where:** cellar · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (those, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:32:20
# text = After a while, as the maid did not come back, and those upstairs were thirsty for the beer, the man said to the boy: ‘Just go down into the cellar and see where Elsie and the girl are.’
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
15	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
32	down	down	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
38	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	ccomp	_	_
39	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
43	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come back** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  | while | as the maid | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | those |  |  |  |  | for the beer; thirsty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man |  |  |  |  | to the boy | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to boy=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go down** | infinitive |  |  |  | the cellar |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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