--- title: Little Marleen went upstairs and took her best silk handkerchief out… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Little Marleen went upstairs and took her best silk handkerchief out of her bottom drawer, and in it she wrapped all the bones from under the table and carried them outside, and all the time she did nothing but weep. Who acts: Little Marleen, wife. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/53/) [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/) / 53 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 53 Little Marleen went upstairs and took her best silk handkerchief out of her bottom drawer, and in it she wrapped all the bones from under the table and carried them outside, and all the time she did nothing but weep. **Who acts:** Little Marleen, wife · **What happens:** go, take, wrap, carry, do · **To what, where:** best silk handkerchief, bottom drawer, bones, drawer, 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 (Little Marleen, wife), 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:pg2591:38:53 # text = Little Marleen went upstairs and took her best silk handkerchief out of her bottom drawer, and in it she wrapped all the bones from under the table and carried them outside, and all the time she did nothing but weep. 1 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Marleen Marleen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 upstairs upstairs ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 9 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 handkerchief handkerchief NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 out out ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 drawer drawer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 wrapped wrap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 24 det:predet _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 under under ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 outside outside ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 37 det:predet _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl:unmarked _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 40 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 39 obj _ _ 41 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 weep weep NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Little Marleen | | | | | upstairs *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past | Little Marleen *not said here* | wife's best silk handkerchief | | wife's bottom drawer | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme out drawer=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **wrap** | past | wife | all bones | | drawer | | from the table | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme in it=Destination | | 4 | **carry** | past | wife *not said here* | bones *= bone* | | | | outside *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **do** | past | wife | nothing | | | time | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/54/) - ↑ back to [The Juniper-tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/)