Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 53
Little Marleen went upstairs and took her best silk handkerchief out of her bottom drawer, and in it she wrapped all the bones from under the table and carried them outside, and all the time she did nothing but weep.
Who acts: Little Marleen, wife · What happens: go, take, wrap, carry, do · To what, where: best silk handkerchief, bottom drawer, bones, drawer, nothing
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 (Little Marleen, wife), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Marleen | amod |
| 2 | Marleen | Marleen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 took | cc |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 handkerchief | amod |
| 9 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 handkerchief | compound |
| 10 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 drawer | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 drawer | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 drawer | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drawer | compound |
| 15 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wrapped | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wrapped | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wrapped | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wrapped | nsubj |
| 21 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 bones | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bones | det |
| 24 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wrapped | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 table | case |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 table | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 table | det |
| 28 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wrapped | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 carried | cc |
| 30 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wrapped | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 carried | obj |
| 32 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 30 carried | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 did | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 did | cc |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 time | det:predet |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 time | det |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 did | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 did | nsubj |
| 39 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 40 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 39 did | obj |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 weep | cc |
| 42 | weep | weep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 nothing | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Little Marleen | upstairs property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Little Marleen not said here | wife's best silk handkerchief | wife's bottom drawer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme out drawer=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | wrap | past | wife | all bones | drawer | from the table | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme in it=Destination | ||
| 4 | carry | past | wife not said here | bones = bone | outside property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | do | past | wife | nothing | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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