Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 16

He now had a little daughter born to him; the child of his first wife was a boy, who was as red as blood and as white as snow.

Who acts: sorrow, child, boy · What happens: have, bear, be · To what, where: little daughter, sorrow, boy

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, child, boy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 daughter	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 daughter	amod
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 daughter	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 born	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 boy	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 boy	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 wife	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 wife	amod
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 child	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 boy	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 red	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 red	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 red	cop
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 red	advmod
24	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boy	acl:relcl
25	as	as	ADP	_	26 blood	case
26	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 red	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 white	cc
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 white	advmod
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 red	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 snow	case
31	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 white	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	sorrow	a little daughter		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	bear	participle		a little daughter not said here	sorrow			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	the child of sorrow's first wife	a boy				tree rules
4	is	past	a boy				as blood; red property	tree rules
5	be		a boy not said here				as snow	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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