Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 113

But little Marleen sat and wept and wept.

Who acts: little Marleen · What happens: sit, weep

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Marleen	amod
3	Marleen	Marleen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wept	cc
6	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wept	cc
8	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wept	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	sit	past	little Marleen	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	weep	past	little Marleen not said here	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	weep	past	little Marleen not said here	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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