Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 59
‘My mother killed her little son; My father grieved when I was gone; My sister loved me best of all; She laid her kerchief over me, And took my bones that they might lie Underneath the juniper-tree Kywitt, Kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I!’
Who acts: mother, father, I, sister, bones, tree Kywitt · What happens: kill, grieve, be, love, lay, take · To what, where: little son, me, kerchief, bones, tree Kywitt
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 (mother, father, I, sister), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | nsubj |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 son | amod |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 grieved | punct |
| 9 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grieved | nsubj |
| 11 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | conj |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 gone | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 gone | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gone | cop |
| 15 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grieved | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 loved | punct |
| 17 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sister | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 loved | nsubj |
| 19 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grieved | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 loved | obj |
| 21 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 loved | advmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 best | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 laid | punct |
| 25 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 laid | nsubj |
| 26 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grieved | conj |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 kerchief | nmod:poss |
| 28 | kerchief | kerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 laid | obj |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 laid | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 took | punct |
| 32 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 took | cc |
| 33 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 grieved | conj |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bones | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 took | obj |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 lie | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 lie | nsubj |
| 38 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 lie | aux |
| 39 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 took | advcl |
| 40 | Underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 45 Kywitt | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 tree | det |
| 42 | juniper | juniper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 tree | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 juniper | punct |
| 44 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Kywitt | compound |
| 45 | Kywitt | Kywitt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 lie | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Kywitt | punct |
| 47 | Kywitt | Kywitt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Kywitt | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 bird | punct |
| 49 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 52 bird | nsubj |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 bird | det |
| 51 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 bird | amod |
| 52 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Kywitt | appos |
| 53 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | advcl |
| 54 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 53 am | nsubj |
| 55 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
| 56 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | My mother | mother's little son | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grieve | past | My father | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | I | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love | past | My sister | me | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | lay | past | sister | mother's kerchief | over me | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kerchief=Theme over i=Destination | |||
| 6 | take | past | My father not said here | my bones | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | ||||
| 7 | lie | might | bones = bone | tree Kywitt and Kywitt | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent underneath kywitt=Location | ||||
| 8 | bird | tree Kywitt and Kywitt | tree rules |
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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