Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 57
Little Marleen now felt as lighthearted and happy as if her brother were still alive, and she went back to the house and sat down cheerfully to the table and ate.
Who acts: Little Marleen, brother, bird · What happens: feel, be, go back, sit down, eat
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, brother, bird), 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 | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 felt | advmod |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 lighthearted | case |
| 6 | lighthearted | lighthearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 happy | cc |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lighthearted | conj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 alive | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 alive | mark |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 alive | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 alive | cop |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 alive | advmod |
| 15 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 happy | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sat | cc |
| 25 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 sat | compound:prt |
| 27 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 25 sat | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 table | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 table | det |
| 30 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sat | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 ate | cc |
| 32 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Little Marleen | now | lighthearted property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | bird's brother | still | alive property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go back | past | bird | to the house result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | ||||
| 4 | sit down | past | bird not said here | to the table; cheerfully property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | eat | past | bird not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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