Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 144
‘I was so miserable,’ she said, ‘when I came out, but that has all passed away; that is indeed a splendid bird, and he has given me a pair of red shoes.’
Who acts: I, bird, that · What happens: be, say, come out, pass away, give · To what, where: that, splendid bird, father, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, bird, that), 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 | _ | 5 miserable | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 miserable | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 miserable | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 miserable | advmod |
| 5 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 miserable | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 miserable | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 miserable | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 came | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 passed | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 passed | cc |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 passed | aux |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 passed | advmod |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 came | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 passed | advmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 bird | punct |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 bird | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 bird | cop |
| 26 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 29 bird | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bird | det |
| 28 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bird | amod |
| 29 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 miserable | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 given | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 given | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 given | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 given | aux |
| 34 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 miserable | advcl |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 given | iobj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 pair | det |
| 37 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 given | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 shoes | case |
| 39 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 shoes | amod |
| 40 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 pair | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 miserable | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 miserable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | miserable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come out | past | I | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pass away | present · perfect · passive | that | all, away property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | that | a splendid bird | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | give | present · perfect · passive | father | me | 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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