--- title: The messenger sat all this time with the beautiful young lady, and a… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 (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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:56:52 # text = 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.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 messenger messenger NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 6 det:predet _ _ 5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 16 nsubj _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 salad salad NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 longed long VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 33 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 35 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 39 advmod _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 salad salad NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/53/) - ↑ back to [The Salad](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/56/)