Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 2
They loved each other dearly, but sorrowed much that they had no children.
Who acts: They · What happens: love, sorrow, have · To what, where: each, children
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 (They), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 loved | obj |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dearly | amod |
| 5 | dearly | dearly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 each | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sorrowed | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 sorrowed | cc |
| 8 | sorrowed | sorrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 loved | conj |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 sorrowed | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorrowed | advcl |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 children | det |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | They | each | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sorrow | past | They not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | have | past | they | no children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/2/