Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 131
But the wife was in such fear and trouble, that she fell on the floor, and her cap fell from her head.
Who acts: wife, cap · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: such fear, floor, head
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, cap), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 fear | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wife | det |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fear | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fear | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fear | case |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fear | amod |
| 7 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 trouble | cc |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fear | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 fell | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fear | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 floor | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 floor | det |
| 16 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fell | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cap | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fell | conj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wife | such fear and trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | wife | the floor | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | wife's cap | wife's head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from head=Initial_Location |
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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