Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 55

And now the juniper-tree began to move, and the branches waved backwards and forwards, first away from one another, and then together again, as it might be someone clapping their hands for joy.

Who acts: juniper tree, branches, tree · What happens: begin, move, wave, be, clap · To what, where: hands

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 (juniper tree, branches, tree), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 began	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
4	juniper	juniper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 juniper	punct
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 move	mark
9	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 waved	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 waved	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 branches	det
13	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 waved	nsubj
14	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	conj
15	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	14 waved	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 forwards	cc
17	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	15 backwards	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 away	punct
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 away	advmod
20	away	away	ADV	_	14 waved	advmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 one	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 away	obl
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 one	fixed
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 again	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 again	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 again	advmod
27	together	together	ADV	_	28 again	advmod
28	again	again	ADV	_	14 waved	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 someone	punct
30	as	as	ADP	_	34 someone	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 someone	nsubj
32	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 someone	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 someone	cop
34	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 waved	obl
35	clapping	clap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 someone	acl
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 hands	nmod:poss
37	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 clapping	obj
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 joy	case
39	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 clapping	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the juniper tree		now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	move	to-infinitive	the juniper tree not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	wave	past	the branches		again	away, backwards property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	might	tree			as someone	tree rules
5	clap	gerund		branches's hands		for joy	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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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