Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 10
Presently the fruit became round and firm, and she was glad and at peace; but when they were fully ripe she picked the berries and ate eagerly of them, and then she grew sad and ill.
Who acts: fruit, wife, blossoms · What happens: become, be, pick, eat, grow · To what, where: berries
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fruit, wife, blossoms), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 became | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fruit | det |
| 3 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 firm | cc |
| 7 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 round | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glad | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 glad | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 glad | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 glad | cop |
| 12 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 round | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 peace | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 peace | case |
| 15 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glad | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 picked | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 picked | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 ripe | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ripe | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ripe | cop |
| 21 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 22 ripe | advmod |
| 22 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 picked | advcl |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 picked | nsubj |
| 24 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 berries | det |
| 26 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 picked | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ate | cc |
| 28 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 picked | conj |
| 29 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 31 them | advmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 ate | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 grew | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 grew | cc |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 grew | advmod |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 grew | nsubj |
| 36 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | conj |
| 37 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 grew | xcomp |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 ill | cc |
| 39 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 sad | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the fruit | presently, round property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | wife | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | blossoms = blossom | fully, ripe property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pick | past | wife | the berries | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient | ||||
| 5 | eat | past | wife not said here | of blossoms = blossom | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of they=Source | ||||
| 6 | grow | past | wife | then | sad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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.
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