Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 50
With this he went on with his dinner, and said, ‘Little Marleen, why do you weep?
Who acts: husband, you · What happens: go on, say, weep · 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 (husband, you), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 went | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 dinner | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Marleen | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Marleen | punct |
| 14 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Marleen | amod |
| 15 | Marleen | Marleen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 weep | punct |
| 17 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 weep | advmod |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 weep | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 weep | nsubj |
| 20 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Marleen | parataxis |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | husband | with this; with husband's dinner | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | husband not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | weep | present · do-support | you | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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