Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 15

By degrees, however, his sorrow grew less, and although at times he still grieved over his loss, he was able to go about as usual, and later on he married again.

Who acts: sorrow, husband · What happens: grow, grieve, be, go about, marry, sorrow · To what, where: loss

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 (sorrow, 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 degrees	case
2	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grew	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 degrees	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 grew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sorrow	nmod:poss
7	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 grew	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grieved	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grieved	cc
12	although	although	SCONJ	_	14 times	case
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 times	case
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grieved	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 grieved	nsubj
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 grieved	advmod
17	grieved	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grew	conj
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 loss	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 loss	nmod:poss
20	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grieved	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 able	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 able	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 able	cop
24	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grieved	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 go	mark
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 able	xcomp
27	about	about	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 usual	case
29	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 go	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 married	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 married	cc
32	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 married	advmod
33	on	on	SCONJ	_	35 married	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 married	nsubj
35	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grew	conj
36	again	again	ADV	_	35 married	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	husband's sorrow			by degrees; however, less property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by degree=Location
2	grieve	past	sorrow	husband's loss	still; time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	sorrow			able property	tree rules
4	go about	to-infinitive	sorrow not said here			as usual; about property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	marry	past	sorrow		again	late property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	sorrow		husband				nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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