Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 110
The father, the mother, and little Marleen were having their dinner.
Who acts: little Marleen · What happens: have · To what, where: dinner
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 (little Marleen), 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 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mother | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mother | det |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 father | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 having | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 having | cc |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Marleen | amod |
| 9 | Marleen | Marleen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 having | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 having | aux |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 father | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 having | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · progressive | little Marleen | shoes's dinner | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |
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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