Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 23
The mother was angry at this, but she answered, ‘Yes, when he comes out of school.’
Who acts: mother, brother · What happens: be, answer, come out · To what, where: this, school
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 (mother, brother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | cop |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 angry | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 answered | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 angry | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 comes | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 comes | punct |
| 13 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 17 comes | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 comes | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 comes | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 comes | nsubj |
| 17 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 school | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 school | case |
| 20 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 comes | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 angry | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the mother | this | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | mother | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come out | present | brother | school | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient school=Result |
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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