Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 19
She drove him from place to place with cuffings and buffetings, so that the poor child went about in fear, and had no peace from the time he left school to the time he went back.
Who acts: evil, poor child, boy · What happens: drive, go about, have, leave, go back · To what, where: boy, place, fear, peace, school, time
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, poor 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drove | nsubj |
| 2 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drove | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drove | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 cuffings | case |
| 9 | cuffings | cuffing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 place | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 buffetings | cc |
| 11 | buffetings | buffeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cuffings | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 went | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 child | det |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 child | amod |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drove | parataxis |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 fear | case |
| 21 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 had | cc |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | conj |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 peace | det |
| 26 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 time | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 left | nsubj |
| 31 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 time | acl:relcl |
| 32 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 left | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 time | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 time | det |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 left | obl |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 went | nsubj |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 time | acl:relcl |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 went | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | evil | boy | place to place with cuffings and buffetings | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from place=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | go about | past | the poor child | fear | about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | have | past | the poor child not said here | no peace | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient | |||
| 4 | leave | past | boy | school | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Theme | |||
| 5 | go back | past | boy | the time not said here | 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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