Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 47

The wife of a rich man fell sick; and when she felt that her end drew nigh, she called her only daughter to her bed-side, and said, ‘Always be a good girl, and I will look down from heaven and watch over you.’

Who acts: wife, end, I · What happens: fall, feel, draw, call, say, be · To what, where: wife, bed side, good girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, end, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 man	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wife	nmod
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fell	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 felt	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 felt	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 felt	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 felt	nsubj
13	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 drew	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 end	nmod:poss
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drew	nsubj
17	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 felt	advcl
18	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	17 drew	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 called	nsubj
21	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 felt	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 called	obj
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 daughter	advmod
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	xcomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	29 side	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 side	nmod:poss
27	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 side	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 bed	punct
29	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 felt	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 girl	punct
34	‘	'	PUNCT	_	39 girl	punct
35	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	39 girl	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 girl	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 girl	det
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 girl	amod
39	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 said	ccomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 look	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 look	cc
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 look	nsubj
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 look	aux
44	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fell	parataxis
45	down	down	ADP	_	44 look	compound:prt
46	from	from	ADP	_	47 heaven	case
47	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 look	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 watch	cc
49	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 look	conj
50	over	over	ADP	_	51 you	case
51	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 watch	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the wife of a rich man			sick property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	past	wife				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	draw	past	wife's end			nigh property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	call	past	end	wife	wife's bed side		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic to side=Recipient
5	say speech: assert	past	wife not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	infinitive		a good girl		always property	tree rules
7	look down	future	I			from heaven	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from heaven=Theme
8	watch	infinitive	I not said here			over you	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over you=Location

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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