Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 134

‘Ah me!’ cried the wife, ‘if I were but a thousand feet beneath the earth, that I might not hear that song.’

Who acts: me, I, thousand feet · What happens: cry, be, not hear · To what, where: wife, thousand feet, that

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 (me, I, thousand feet), 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	_	3 me	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	3 me	discourse
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wife	det
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 feet	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 feet	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 feet	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 feet	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 feet	cop
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 feet	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 thousand	det
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 feet	nummod
17	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hear	nsubj
18	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	20 earth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 earth	det
20	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feet	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hear	punct
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 hear	obj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 hear	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 hear	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 hear	advmod
26	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	conj
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 song	det
28	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hear	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	me	the wife		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	I	thousand feet	beneath the earth	tree rules
3	not hear	might	thousand feet	that		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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