Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 123
then little Marleen laid her head down on her knees and sobbed.
Who acts: little Marleen · What happens: lay down, sob · To what, where: head, knees
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 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 laid | advmod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Marleen | amod |
| 3 | Marleen | Marleen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 laid | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 knees | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 knees | nmod:poss |
| 10 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laid | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sobbed | cc |
| 12 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 laid | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | past | little Marleen | sister's head | sister's knees | then | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on knee=Destination | |
| 2 | sob | participle | little Marleen not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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