Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 46

‘Oh,’ answered the wife, ‘he is gone into the country to his mother’s great uncle; he is going to stay there some time.’

Who acts: father · What happens: answer, be, go, stay · To what, where: wife, country

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 (father), 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	_	5 answered	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wife	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gone	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	cop
12	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 answered	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 country	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 country	det
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	21 uncle	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 uncle	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 mother	case
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 uncle	amod
21	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 going	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 going	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 going	aux
25	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 answered	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 stay	mark
27	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 going	xcomp
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 stay	advmod
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stay	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past		the wife				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality
2	is	present	father		the country		to father's mother's great uncle; go property	tree rules
3	go	present · progressive	father					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	stay	to-infinitive	father not said here		there	time		vn exist-47.1 «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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