Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 44

The mother said nothing, but gave him a large dish of black pudding, and Marleen still wept without ceasing.

Who acts: mother, Marleen · What happens: say, give, weep, cease · To what, where: nothing, large dish, father · 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 (mother, Marleen), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gave	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 gave	cc
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gave	iobj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dish	det
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dish	amod
11	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 pudding	case
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pudding	amod
14	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dish	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wept	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wept	cc
17	Marleen	Marleen	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 wept	nsubj
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 wept	advmod
19	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gave	conj
20	without	without	SCONJ	_	21 ceasing	mark
21	ceasing	cease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 wept	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mother	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	give	past	the mother not said here	a large dish of black pudding	father		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dish=Theme
3	weep	past	Marleen			still	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cease	gerund	Marleen not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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