Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 26

The little boy now came in, and the evil spirit in the wife made her say kindly to him, ‘My son, will you have an apple?’ but she gave him a wicked look.

Who acts: little boy, evil spirit, mother, you · What happens: come in, make, say, have, give · To what, where: mother, apple, wicked look, spirit · 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 boy, evil spirit, mother, you), 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	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spirit	det
10	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spirit	amod
11	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 wife	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wife	det
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spirit	nmod
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	obj
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 made	xcomp
18	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	17 say	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 kindly	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 son	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 son	punct
23	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 son	nmod:poss
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 son	acl:relcl
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 apple	det
30	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 gave	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 gave	nsubj
35	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 made	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 gave	iobj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 look	det
38	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 look	amod
39	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gave	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past	the little boy			now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	the evil spirit in the wife	mother			My son obl	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	mother not said here				kindly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	have	future	you	a apple				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient
5	give	past	mother	a wicked look	spirit			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient look=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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