Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 3

So greatly did they desire to have one, that the wife prayed for it day and night, but still they remained childless.

Who acts: children, wife · What happens: do, desire, have, pray, remain · To what, where: one

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 (children, wife), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 desire	nsubj
5	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 desire	xcomp
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 prayed	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 prayed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wife	det
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 prayed	nsubj
13	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 prayed	obl
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 prayed	obl:unmarked
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 night	cc
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 day	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 remained	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 remained	cc
21	still	still	ADV	_	23 remained	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 remained	nsubj
23	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
24	childless	childless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 remained	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past				greatly property	tree rules
2	desire	present	children = child				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	one			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	pray	past	the wife		day	for it	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for it=Theme
5	remain	past	children = child		still	childless property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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