Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 9
Once again the wife stood under the juniper-tree, and it was so full of sweet scent that her heart leaped for joy, and she was so overcome with her happiness, that she fell on her knees.
Who acts: wife, tree, heart · What happens: stand, be, leap, fall · To what, where: juniper tree, knees
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 (wife, tree, heart), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 again | advmod |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wife | det |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 8 | juniper | juniper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 juniper | punct |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 full | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 full | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 full | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 full | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 full | advmod |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stood | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 scent | case |
| 18 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 scent | amod |
| 19 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 full | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 leaped | mark |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leaped | nsubj |
| 23 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 full | advcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 joy | case |
| 25 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leaped | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 happiness | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 happiness | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 happiness | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 happiness | cop |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 overcome | advmod |
| 31 | overcome | overcome | ADV | _ | 34 happiness | advmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 happiness | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 34 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 fell | punct |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 fell | mark |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 fell | nsubj |
| 38 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 knees | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 knees | nmod:poss |
| 41 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 fell | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the wife | the juniper tree | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | tree | of sweet scent; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leap | participle | wife's heart | for joy | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | heart | with wife's happiness; overcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | heart | wife's knees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location |
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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