Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 6
‘Ah,’ sighed the woman heavily, ‘if I had but a child, as red as blood and as white as snow,’ and as she spoke the words, her heart grew light within her, and it seemed to her that her wish was granted, and she returned to the house feeling glad and comforted.
Who acts: I, woman, heart, it · What happens: sigh, have, speak, grow, seem, grant · To what, where: woman, words, wish · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, woman, heart, it), 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 | _ | 5 sighed | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 sighed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sighed | punct |
| 5 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sighed | obj |
| 8 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 5 sighed | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sighed | conj |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 child | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 red | punct |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 red | case |
| 19 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 had | parataxis |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 blood | case |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 red | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 white | cc |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 white | advmod |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 red | conj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 snow | case |
| 26 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 white | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ’ | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 red | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 spoke | cc |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 spoke | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 spoke | nsubj |
| 32 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 ’ | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 words | det |
| 34 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 spoke | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 grew | punct |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 heart | nmod:poss |
| 37 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 grew | nsubj |
| 38 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 spoke | conj |
| 39 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 grew | xcomp |
| 40 | within | within | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 light | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 seemed | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 seemed | cc |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 seemed | nsubj |
| 45 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 grew | conj |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 her | case |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 seemed | obl |
| 48 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 52 granted | mark |
| 49 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 wish | nmod:poss |
| 50 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 51 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 granted | aux:pass |
| 52 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 seemed | advcl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 returned | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 returned | cc |
| 55 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 returned | nsubj |
| 56 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 grew | conj |
| 57 | to | to | ADP | _ | 59 house | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 house | det |
| 59 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 returned | obl |
| 60 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 56 returned | advcl |
| 61 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 feeling | xcomp |
| 62 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 comforted | cc |
| 63 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 61 glad | conj |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | the woman | heavily property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | woman | the words | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | woman's heart | light property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seem | past | it | woman | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | grant | past · passive | woman's wish | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | return | past | heart | to the house result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | ||||
| 8 | feel | gerund | heart not said here | glad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | comfort | participle | heart not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 10 | wish | woman | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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