Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 37

So little Marleen went, and said, ‘Brother, give me that apple,’ but he did not say a word; then she gave him a box on the ear, and his head rolled off.

Who acts: little Marleen, Marleen, thought, head · What happens: go, say, give, not say, roll off · To what, where: Brother, apple, me, word, box, Marleen · 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 Marleen, Marleen, thought, head), 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	_	4 went	advmod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Marleen	amod
3	Marleen	Marleen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Brother	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 Brother	punct
10	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 apple	mark
15	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 apple	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 apple	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 say	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 say	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 say	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 say	advmod
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 give	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 word	det
24	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 say	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 gave	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 gave	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gave	nsubj
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gave	iobj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 box	det
31	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 ear	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ear	det
34	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 rolled	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 rolled	cc
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 head	nmod:poss
38	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rolled	nsubj
39	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
40	off	off	ADP	_	39 rolled	compound:prt
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past	little Marleen					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	little Marleen not said here	Brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	infinitive		apple	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient apple=Theme
4	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	Marleen	a word				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
5	give	past	thought	a box	Marleen	the ear	then	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient box=Theme on ear=Asset
6	roll off	past	Marleen's head					vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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