Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 145
The wife sprang up, with her hair standing out from her head like flames of fire.
Who acts: wife, hair, fire · What happens: spring up, stand out, flame · To what, where: 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, hair, fire), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 sprang | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hair | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hair | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hair | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprang | obl |
| 9 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hair | acl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 standing | compound:prt |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 standing | obl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 flames | case |
| 15 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 standing | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fire | case |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flames | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | the wife | with bird's hair | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand out | gerund | bird's hair not said here | bird's head | like flames of fire | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | flame | fire | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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