Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 14
Her husband buried her under the juniper-tree, and wept bitterly for her.
Who acts: husband · What happens: bury, weep · To what, where: wife, juniper tree
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 (husband), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buried | nsubj |
| 3 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 buried | obj |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 7 | juniper | juniper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 juniper | punct |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buried | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wept | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wept | cc |
| 12 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 buried | conj |
| 13 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 12 wept | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wept | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past | wife's husband | wife | the juniper tree | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme under tree=Destination | |||
| 2 | weep | past | wife's husband not said here | for wife; bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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