--- title: Hans had been at home for a long time, but Elsie did not come; then… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Hans had been at home for a long time, but Elsie did not come; then said he: ‘What a clever Elsie I have; she is so industrious that she does not even come home to eat.’ Who acts: Hans, Elsie, I. 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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 (Hans, Elsie, I), 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:pg2591:32:45 # text = Hans had been at home for a long time, but Elsie did not come; then said he: ‘What a clever Elsie I have; she is so industrious that she does not even come home to eat.’ 1 Hans han NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 cop _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 Elsie Elsie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 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 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 25 det _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Elsie Elsie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 industrious industrious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 34 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 35 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 37 even even ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 ccomp _ _ 39 home home ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past · perfect | Hans | | | home | time | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **come** | past · do-support | Elsie | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hans *not said here* | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | I | what clever Elsie *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elsie=Patient | | 5 | **is** | present | Elsie | | | | | industrious *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **come** | present · do-support | Elsie | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Elsie *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/32/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/32/46/) - ↑ back to [Clever Elsie](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/32/)