Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 8

So the months followed one another, and first the trees budded in the woods, and soon the green branches grew thickly intertwined, and then the blossoms began to fall.

Who acts: months, trees, green branches, blossoms · What happens: follow, bud, grow, begin, fall · To what, where: one, woods

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 (months, trees, green branches, blossoms), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 followed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 months	det
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 followed	nsubj
4	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 followed	obj
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 one	fixed
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 budded	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 budded	cc
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 budded	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 budded	nsubj
12	budded	bud	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 followed	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 woods	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woods	det
15	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 budded	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grew	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 grew	cc
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 grew	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 branches	det
20	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 branches	amod
21	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 grew	nsubj
22	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 followed	parataxis
23	thickly	thickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 intertwined	amod
24	intertwined	intertwined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grew	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 began	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 began	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 began	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 blossoms	det
29	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 began	nsubj
30	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 grew	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 fall	mark
32	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 began	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the months	one				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	bud	past	the trees		the woods		first property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	grow	past	the green branches				intertwined, soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	the blossoms			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	fall	to-infinitive	the blossoms not said here					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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