Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 39
‘Oh!’ she said, ‘I have knocked off brother’s head,’ and then she wept and wept, and nothing would stop her.
Who acts: thought, nothing · What happens: say, knock off, weep, stop · To what, where: I, thought · 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 (thought, nothing), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knocked | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 knocked | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 knocked | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 knocked | aux |
| 11 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 knocked | compound:prt |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 brother | case |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knocked | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wept | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 wept | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wept | nsubj |
| 21 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wept | cc |
| 23 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wept | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stop | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 stop | cc |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 28 stop | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 stop | aux |
| 28 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 stop | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | thought | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | knock off | present · perfect · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | weep | past | thought | then | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | weep | past | thought not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | stop | would | nothing | thought | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality she=Eventuality |
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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