--- title: the mother shut her eyes and her ears, that she might see and hear n… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: the mother shut her eyes and her ears, that she might see and hear nothing, but there was a roaring sound in her ears like that of a violent storm, and in her eyes a burning and flashing like lightning: Who acts: mother, roaring sound. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper- --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/119/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Grimms' Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/) / [The Juniper-tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/) / 119 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 119 the mother shut her eyes and her ears, that she might see and hear nothing, but there was a roaring sound in her ears like that of a violent storm, and in her eyes a burning and flashing like lightning: **Who acts:** mother, roaring sound · **What happens:** shut, see, hear, be, roar, burn · **To what, where:** eyes, nothing 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, roaring sound), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2591:38:119 # text = the mother shut her eyes and her ears, that she might see and hear nothing, but there was a roaring sound in her ears like that of a violent storm, and in her eyes a burning and flashing like lightning: 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shut shut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 16 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 20 expl _ _ 20 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 roaring roar VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 amod _ _ 23 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 nmod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 violent violent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 conj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 flashing flash VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 conj _ _ 42 like like ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shut** | past | the mother | mother's eyes and mother's ears | | mother's eyes | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 2 | **see** | might | mother | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **hear** | infinitive | mother *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | | 4 | **be** | past | a roaring sound in mother's ears like that | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **roar** | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **burn** | gerund | the mother *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **flash** | gerund | the mother *not said here* | | | | | like lightning | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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. - ← previous: [sentence 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/120/) - ↑ back to [The Juniper-tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/)