Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 54
Then she laid them in the green grass under the juniper-tree, and she had no sooner done so, then all her sadness seemed to leave her, and she wept no more.
Who acts: wife, sadness · What happens: lay, have, do, seem, leave, weep · To what, where: bones, green grass, wife, more
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, sadness), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 laid | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 grass | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grass | det |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grass | amod |
| 8 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obl |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 11 | juniper | juniper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 juniper | punct |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 sooner | det |
| 19 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 done | advmod |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 had | xcomp |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 done | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 seemed | punct |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 seemed | advmod |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 sadness | det |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sadness | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 seemed | nsubj |
| 27 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 leave | mark |
| 29 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 seemed | xcomp |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 leave | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wept | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 wept | cc |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 wept | nsubj |
| 34 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 35 | no | no | ADV | _ | 36 more | advmod |
| 36 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 wept | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | wife | bones = bone | the green grass | then | under the juniper tree | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in grass=Destination | |
| 2 | have | past | wife | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | participle | wife not said here | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | wife's sadness | then | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | leave | to-infinitive | wife's sadness not said here | wife | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | weep | past | wife | more | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=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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