Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 13
Then she felt comforted and happy again, and before another month had passed she had a little child, and when she saw that it was as white as snow and as red as blood, her joy was so great that she died.
Who acts: wife, tree, joy · What happens: feel, comfort, pass, have, see, be · To what, where: month, little child
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 (wife, tree, joy), 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 | 3 felt | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 happy | cc |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 comforted | conj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 happy | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 passed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 passed | cc |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 passed | mark |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 month | det |
| 12 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 passed | aux |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 felt | conj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 passed | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 child | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 child | amod |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saw | cc |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 saw | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | parataxis |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 white | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 white | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 white | cop |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 white | advmod |
| 29 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 saw | ccomp |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 snow | case |
| 31 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 white | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 red | cc |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 34 red | advmod |
| 34 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 white | conj |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 blood | case |
| 36 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 red | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 great | punct |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 joy | nmod:poss |
| 39 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 great | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 great | cop |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 great | advmod |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 saw | conj |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 died | mark |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 died | nsubj |
| 45 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 great | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | wife | then | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | comfort | participle | wife not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | pass | past · perfect · passive | another month | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | past | wife | a little child | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 5 | see | past | wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | past | tree | as snow; white property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | tree not said here | as blood | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | is | past | wife's joy | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | die | past | wife | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 10 | joy | wife | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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