Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 31
And as he bent over to do so, the evil spirit urged her, and crash! down went the lid, and off went the little boy’s head.
Who acts: boy, evil spirit · What happens: bend over, do, urge, go · To what, where: thought, lid, head
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 (boy, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 urged | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 bent | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bent | nsubj |
| 4 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 urged | advcl |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 bent | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bent | advcl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 do | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 urged | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spirit | det |
| 11 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spirit | amod |
| 12 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 urged | nsubj |
| 13 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 urged | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 17 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | vocative |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 crash | punct |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 urged | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lid | det |
| 22 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 25 | off | off | ADV | _ | 26 went | advmod |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 went | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 boy | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 boy | amod |
| 29 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 head | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 boy | case |
| 31 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 urged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend over | past | boy | over property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | boy not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | urge | past | the evil spirit | thought | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the lid | crash vocative; down property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lid=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | the little boy's head | off property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=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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