--- title: The man upstairs waited a short time, but as his wife did not come b… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The man upstairs waited a short time, but as his wife did not come back and his thirst grew ever greater, he said: ‘I must go into the cellar myself and see where Elsie is.’ Who acts: man, thirst, I, Elsie. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, thirst, I, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:32:29 # text = The man upstairs waited a short time, but as his wife did not come back and his thirst grew ever greater, he said: ‘I must go into the cellar myself and see where Elsie is.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 upstairs upstairs ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 13 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 16 back back ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 thirst thirst NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 22 advmod _ _ 22 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 27 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 cellar cellar NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 37 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 39 advmod _ _ 38 Elsie Elsie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' SYM NFP _ 4 discourse _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | past | the man | | | | time | upstairs *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **come back** | past · do-support | the man *not said here* | | | | | as man's wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | past | man's thirst | | | | | great *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | thirst | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **go** | must | I | myself | | the cellar | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into cellar=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **see** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **be** | present | Elsie | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **thirst** | | man | | | | | | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/32/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/32/30/) - ↑ back to [Clever Elsie](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/32/)