Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 20

One day the little daughter came running to her mother in the store-room, and said, ‘Mother, give me an apple.’

Who acts: little daughter · What happens: come, run, say, give · To what, where: store room, Mother, apple, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (little daughter), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 daughter	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 daughter	amod
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 came	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 mother	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 running	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 room	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 room	det
13	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 room	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 store	punct
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 running	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Mother	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 Mother	punct
21	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 apple	det
26	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the little daughter				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	gerund	the little daughter not said here			the store room		to daughter's mother result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mother=Result
3	say speech: assert	past		Mother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	give	infinitive		a apple	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient apple=Theme

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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