Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 24
Just then she looked out of the window and saw him coming, and it seemed as if an evil spirit entered into her, for she snatched the apple out of her little daughter’s hand, and said, ‘You shall not have one before your brother.’
Who acts: mother, brother, it, evil spirit, You · What happens: look out, see, come, seem, enter, snatch · To what, where: window, brother, apple, hand, one · 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 (mother, brother, it, evil spirit), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 looked | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 looked | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 window | det |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | obj |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 saw | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seemed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seemed | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seemed | nsubj |
| 16 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 entered | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 entered | mark |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 spirit | det |
| 20 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spirit | compound |
| 21 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 entered | nsubj |
| 22 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seemed | advcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 entered | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 snatched | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 snatched | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 snatched | nsubj |
| 28 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 entered | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 apple | det |
| 30 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 snatched | obj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 hand | case |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 hand | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 daughter | amod |
| 35 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hand | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 daughter | case |
| 37 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 snatched | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 said | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 said | cc |
| 40 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 have | punct |
| 42 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 have | punct |
| 43 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 have | nsubj |
| 44 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 have | aux |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 have | advmod |
| 46 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 said | ccomp |
| 47 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 have | obj |
| 48 | before | before | ADP | _ | 50 brother | case |
| 49 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 brother | nmod:poss |
| 50 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 have | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 46 have | punct |
| 52 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | mother | the window | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past | mother not said here | brother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | brother not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | enter | past | a evil spirit | into mother | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | snatch | past | mother | the apple | mother's little daughter's hand | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent apple=Theme out hand=Source | |||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | mother not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | not have | shall | You | one | before your brother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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