Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 5

One winter’s day the wife stood under the tree to peel some apples, and as she was peeling them, she cut her finger, and the blood fell on the snow.

Who acts: wife, blood · What happens: stand, peel, cut, fall · To what, where: tree, apples, finger, snow

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 (wife, blood), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
2	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 winter	case
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl:unmarked
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	nsubj
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 peel	mark
12	peel	peel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stood	advcl
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 apples	det
14	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 peel	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cut	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cut	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 peeling	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 peeling	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 peeling	aux
20	peeling	peel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 cut	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 peeling	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 peeling	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cut	nsubj
24	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	parataxis
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 finger	nmod:poss
26	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cut	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fell	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fell	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 blood	det
30	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fell	nsubj
31	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 snow	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 snow	det
34	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fell	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stand	past	the wife		the tree	day	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
2	peel	to-infinitive	the wife not said here	some apples			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Source
3	peel	past · progressive	wife	apples = apple			vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source
4	cut	past	wife	wife's finger			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Product
5	fall	past	the blood		the snow		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on snow=Location

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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