Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 34
So she went upstairs to her room, and took a white handkerchief out of her top drawer; then she set the boy’s head again on his shoulders, and bound it with the handkerchief so that nothing could be seen, and placed him on a chair by the door with an apple in his hand.
Who acts: thought · What happens: go, take, set, bind, see, place · To what, where: room, white handkerchief, top drawer, head, shoulders, nothing
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 (thought), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 room | nmod:poss |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 handkerchief | det |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 handkerchief | amod |
| 13 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 drawer | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 drawer | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 drawer | nmod:poss |
| 17 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 drawer | amod |
| 18 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 set | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 set | nsubj |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 boy | case |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | obj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 set | advmod |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 shoulders | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 30 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 set | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 bound | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bound | cc |
| 33 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 bound | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 handkerchief | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 handkerchief | det |
| 37 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bound | obl |
| 38 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 43 seen | mark |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 seen | mark |
| 40 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 43 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 seen | aux |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 seen | aux:pass |
| 43 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 bound | advcl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 placed | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 placed | cc |
| 46 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 placed | obj |
| 48 | on | on | ADP | _ | 50 chair | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 chair | det |
| 50 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 placed | obl |
| 51 | by | by | ADP | _ | 53 door | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 door | det |
| 53 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 placed | obl |
| 54 | with | with | ADP | _ | 56 apple | case |
| 55 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 apple | det |
| 56 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 placed | obl |
| 57 | in | in | ADP | _ | 59 hand | case |
| 58 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 hand | nmod:poss |
| 59 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 placed | obl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | thought | thought's room | upstairs property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | take | past | thought not said here | a white handkerchief | thought's top drawer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme out drawer=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | set | past | thought | the boy's head | boy's shoulders | then; again | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on shoulder=Destination | ||
| 4 | bind | past | thought not said here | head | with the handkerchief | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with handkerchief=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | see | could · passive | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | place | past | thought not said here | boy | a chair | by the door; with a apple; in boy's hand | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on chair=Destination |
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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