Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 21

‘Yes, my child,’ said the wife, and she gave her a beautiful apple out of the chest; the chest had a very heavy lid and a large iron lock.

Who acts: child, wife, chest · What happens: say, give, have · To what, where: wife, beautiful apple, daughter, chest, heavy lid · 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 (child, wife, chest), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 child	nmod:poss
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wife	det
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 gave	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	iobj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 apple	det
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 apple	amod
18	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 chest	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 chest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chest	det
22	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 chest	det
25	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 lid	det
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 heavy	advmod
29	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 lid	amod
30	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 lock	cc
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 lock	det
33	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 lock	amod
34	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lock	compound
35	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lid	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my child	the wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
2	give	past	wife	a beautiful apple	daughter	the chest	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient apple=Theme
3	have	past	the chest	a heavy lid and a large iron lock			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=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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