Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 115
‘I do feel so happy,’ said the father, ‘and how beautifully the sun shines; I feel just as if I were going to see an old friend again.’
Who acts: I, sun · What happens: feel, say, shine, go, see · To what, where: father, old friend · 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, sun), 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 | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 happy | advmod |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 father | det |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ‘ | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 father | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shines | cc |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 beautifully | advmod |
| 16 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 19 shines | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sun | det |
| 18 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shines | nsubj |
| 19 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 father | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 feel | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 feel | nsubj |
| 22 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 going | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 going | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 going | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 going | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 going | aux |
| 28 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 feel | ccomp |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 see | mark |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 going | xcomp |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 friend | det |
| 32 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 friend | amod |
| 33 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 see | obj |
| 34 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 see | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · do-support | I | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the father and ‘ | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shine | present | the sun | beautifully property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feel | present | I | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | go a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | I not said here | a old friend | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus |
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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