Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 42
But Marleen stood looking on, and wept and wept, and her tears fell into the pot, so that there was no need of salt.
Who acts: Marleen, tears, need · What happens: stand, look on, weep, fall, be, need · To what, where: pot, salt
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 (Marleen, tears, need), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 stood | cc |
| 2 | Marleen | Marleen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 looking | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wept | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wept | cc |
| 8 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wept | cc |
| 10 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wept | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tears | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 pot | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pot | det |
| 18 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 was | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 was | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fell | conj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 need | det |
| 25 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 was | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 salt | case |
| 27 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 need | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Marleen | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | look on | gerund | Marleen not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | weep | past | Marleen not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | weep | past | Marleen not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | thought's tears | into the pot result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pot=Result | ||||
| 6 | be | past | no need of salt | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | need | salt | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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