Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 148
The father and little Marleen heard the sound and ran out, but they only saw mist and flame and fire rising from the spot, and when these had passed, there stood the little brother, and he took the father and little Marleen by the hand; then they all three rejoiced, and went inside together and sat down to their dinners and ate.
Who acts: father, foot, mist · What happens: hear, run out, see, rise, pass, stand · To what, where: sound, mist, spot, these, little brother, father
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 (father, foot, mist), 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 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Marleen | cc |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Marleen | amod |
| 5 | Marleen | Marleen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 father | conj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sound | det |
| 8 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 ran | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 saw | advmod |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | conj |
| 17 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 flame | cc |
| 19 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mist | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fire | cc |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mist | conj |
| 22 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 mist | acl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 spot | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 spot | det |
| 25 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rising | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 passed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 passed | cc |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 passed | advmod |
| 29 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 passed | aux |
| 31 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 heard | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 there | punct |
| 33 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 stood | advmod |
| 34 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 passed | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 brother | det |
| 36 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 brother | amod |
| 37 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stood | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 took | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 took | cc |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 took | nsubj |
| 41 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 stood | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 father | det |
| 43 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 took | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 Marleen | cc |
| 45 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 Marleen | amod |
| 46 | Marleen | Marleen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 father | conj |
| 47 | by | by | ADP | _ | 49 hand | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 hand | det |
| 49 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 took | obl |
| 50 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 55 rejoiced | punct |
| 51 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 55 rejoiced | advmod |
| 52 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 53 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 54 three | det |
| 54 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 55 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 55 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | parataxis |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 went | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 went | cc |
| 58 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 rejoiced | conj |
| 59 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 58 went | advmod |
| 60 | together | together | ADV | _ | 58 went | advmod |
| 61 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 sat | cc |
| 62 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 rejoiced | conj |
| 63 | down | down | ADP | _ | 62 sat | compound:prt |
| 64 | to | to | ADP | _ | 66 dinners | case |
| 65 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 66 dinners | nmod:poss |
| 66 | dinners | dinner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 62 sat | obl |
| 67 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 68 ate | cc |
| 68 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 rejoiced | conj |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the father and little Marleen | the sound | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | run out | past | the father and little Marleen not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | foot | mist and flame and fire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mist=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | rise | gerund | mist and flame and fire not said here | the spot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from spot=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | pass | past · perfect · passive | these | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 6 | stand | past | the little brother | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | take | past | father | the father and little Marleen | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument father=Destination | |||
| 8 | rejoice | past | foot | then | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | go | past | foot not said here | inside, together property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 10 | sit down | past | foot not said here | to foot's dinners | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 11 | eat | past | foot not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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