Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 12
‘If I die, bury me under the juniper-tree.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: die, bury · To what, where: me, juniper tree
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, you), 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 bury | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 die | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 die | nsubj |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bury | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 6 | bury | bury | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bury | obj |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 10 | juniper | juniper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 juniper | punct |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bury | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bury | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 bury | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | bury | imperative | you not said here | me | the juniper tree | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme under tree=Destination |
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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