Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 112
‘And I,’ said the mother, ‘I feel so uneasy, as if a heavy thunderstorm were coming.’
Who acts: I, heavy thunderstorm · What happens: say, feel, come · To what, where: mother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, heavy thunderstorm), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 I | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 I | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mother | det |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feel | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 feel | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 feel | nsubj |
| 12 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 uneasy | advmod |
| 14 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 feel | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 coming | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 coming | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 coming | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 thunderstorm | det |
| 19 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thunderstorm | amod |
| 20 | thunderstorm | thunderstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 coming | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 coming | aux |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 feel | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | I | the mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | I | uneasy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | past · progressive | a heavy thunderstorm | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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