Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 128

She laid her kerchief over me, And took my bones that they might lie Underneath the juniper-tree Kywitt, Kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I!’

Who acts: bird, bones, tree Kywitt · What happens: lay, take, lie, bird · To what, where: kerchief, bones, tree Kywitt

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 (bird, bones, tree Kywitt), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 kerchief	nmod:poss
4	kerchief	kerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 laid	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct
8	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 took	cc
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bones	nmod:poss
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 took	obj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 lie	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lie	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 lie	aux
15	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 took	advcl
16	Underneath	underneath	ADP	_	21 Kywitt	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
18	juniper	juniper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tree	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 juniper	punct
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Kywitt	compound
21	Kywitt	Kywitt	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 lie	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Kywitt	punct
23	Kywitt	Kywitt	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Kywitt	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bird	punct
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 bird	nsubj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bird	det
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bird	amod
28	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Kywitt	appos
29	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	parataxis
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 am	nsubj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	bird	bird's kerchief		over me	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kerchief=Theme over i=Destination
2	take	past	bird not said here	my bones			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
3	lie	might	bones = bone		tree Kywitt and Kywitt		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent underneath kywitt=Location
4	bird		tree Kywitt and Kywitt				tree rules

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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