--- title: ‘My mother killed her little son; My father grieved when I was gone;… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: ‘My mother killed her little son; My father grieved when I was gone; My sister loved me best of all; She laid her kerchief over me, And took my bones that they might lie Underneath the juniper-tree Kywitt, Kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I!’ Who acts: mother, father, I, sister. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, father, I, sister), 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:pg2591:38:59 # text = ‘My mother killed her little son; My father grieved when I was gone; My sister loved me best of all; She laid her kerchief over me, And took my bones that they might lie Underneath the juniper-tree Kywitt, Kywitt, what a beautiful bird am I!’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 grieved grieve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 when when SCONJ WRB _ 15 mark _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 19 advmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 kerchief kerchief NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 over over ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 And and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 40 Underneath underneath ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 juniper juniper NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 Kywitt Kywitt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 Kywitt Kywitt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 49 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 52 nsubj _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 appos _ _ 53 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 54 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kill** | past | My mother | mother's little son | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | | 2 | **grieve** | past | My father | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | past | I | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **love** | past | My sister | me | | | | well *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 5 | **lay** | past | sister | mother's kerchief | | | | over me | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kerchief=Theme over i=Destination | | 6 | **take** | past | My father *not said here* | my bones | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | | 7 | **lie** | might | bones *= bone* | | | tree Kywitt and Kywitt | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent underneath kywitt=Location | | 8 | **bird** | | tree Kywitt and Kywitt | | | | | | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/60/) - ↑ back to [The Juniper-tree](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/38/)