--- title: After this a mist came round the tree, and in the midst of it there… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: After this a mist came round the tree, and in the midst of it there was a burning as of fire, and out of the fire there flew a beautiful bird, that rose high into the air, singing magnificently, and when it could no more be seen, the juniper-tree stood there as before, and the silk handkerchief and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/56/) [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/) / 56 # Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 56 After this a mist came round the tree, and in the midst of it there was a burning as of fire, and out of the fire there flew a beautiful bird, that rose high into the air, singing magnificently, and when it could no more be seen, the juniper-tree stood there as before, and the silk handkerchief and the bones were gone. **Who acts:** burning fire, fire, beautiful bird, juniper tree, silk handkerchief · **What happens:** come, be, burn, fly, rise, sing · **To what, where:** tree, midst, beautiful bird, air, fire 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 (burning fire, fire, beautiful bird, juniper tree), 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:pg2591:38:56 # text = After this a mist came round the tree, and in the midst of it there was a burning as of fire, and out of the fire there flew a beautiful bird, that rose high into the air, singing magnificently, and when it could no more be seen, the juniper-tree stood there as before, and the silk handkerchief and the bones were gone. 1 After after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 mist mist NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 round round ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 17 expl _ _ 17 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 amod _ _ 20 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 22 case _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 20 fixed _ _ 22 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 out out ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 30 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 43 magnificently magnificently ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 46 when when SCONJ WRB _ 52 mark _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj:pass _ _ 48 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 49 no no ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 50 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 52 nsubj:pass _ _ 51 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 52 aux:pass _ _ 52 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 58 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 55 juniper juniper NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 56 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 55 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nsubj _ _ 58 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 59 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 58 advmod _ _ 60 as as ADV RB _ 61 advmod _ _ 61 before before ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 71 punct _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 71 cc _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 66 det _ _ 65 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 compound _ _ 66 handkerchief handkerchief NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 nsubj _ _ 67 and and CCONJ CC _ 69 cc _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 69 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 66 conj _ _ 70 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 71 cop _ _ 71 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | | | | the tree | after this mist | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round tree=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **be** | past | a burning fire | | | the midst of tree; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location | | 3 | **burn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fly** | past | the fire | a beautiful bird | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme | | 5 | **rise** | past | a beautiful bird | | | the air | | high *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | a beautiful bird *not said here* | | | | | magnificently *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **see** | could · passive | | fire | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 8 | **stand** | past | the juniper tree | | | there | | before *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is** | past | the silk handkerchief and the bones | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | 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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/57/) - ↑ back to [The Juniper-tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/)