Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 18
This evil thought took possession of her more and more, and made her behave very unkindly to the boy.
Who acts: evil, mother · What happens: think, take, make, behave, possess · To what, where: possession, mother
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 (evil, mother), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 evil | det |
| 2 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 evil | acl |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 possession | nmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 took | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 more | cc |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 more | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | obj |
| 15 | behave | behave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 made | xcomp |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 unkindly | advmod |
| 17 | unkindly | unkindly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 made | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 boy | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boy | det |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 unkindly | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | this evil not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | this evil | possession of mother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | this evil not said here | mother | unkindly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | behave | infinitive | mother not said here | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | possess | mother | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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