Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 1

It was in the middle of winter, when the broad flakes of snow were falling around, that a certain queen sat working at her window, the frame of which was made of fine black ebony; and, as she was looking out upon the snow, she pricked her finger, and three drops of blood fell upon it.

Who acts: It, broad flakes, certain queen, queen, three drops · What happens: be, fall around, sit, work, make, look out · To what, where: middle, frame, finger, blood

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Little Snow White. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, broad flakes, certain queen, queen), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 middle	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 middle	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 middle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 middle	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 falling	punct
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 falling	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flakes	det
11	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 flakes	amod
12	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 falling	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 snow	case
14	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flakes	nmod
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 falling	aux
16	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 middle	parataxis
17	around	around	ADV	_	16 falling	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 sat	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 queen	det
21	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 queen	amod
22	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sat	nsubj
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 falling	parataxis
24	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 sat	xcomp
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 window	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 window	nmod:poss
27	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 working	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 frame	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 frame	det
30	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 working	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 made	obl
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 made	aux:pass
34	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 frame	acl:relcl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 ebony	case
36	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 ebony	amod
37	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 ebony	amod
38	ebony	ebony	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 made	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 pricked	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 pricked	cc
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 and	punct
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 looking	mark
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 looking	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 looking	aux
45	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 pricked	advcl
46	out	out	ADP	_	45 looking	compound:prt
47	upon	upon	ADP	_	49 snow	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 snow	det
49	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 looking	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 looking	punct
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 pricked	nsubj
52	pricked	prick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sat	conj
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 finger	nmod:poss
54	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 pricked	obj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 fell	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 fell	cc
57	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 drops	nummod
58	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 fell	nsubj
59	of	of	ADP	_	60 blood	case
60	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 drops	nmod
61	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 pricked	conj
62	upon	upon	ADP	_	63 it	case
63	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 fell	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 middle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It		the middle	winter		tree rules
2	fall around	past · progressive	the broad flakes of snow				around property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past	a certain queen					tree rules
4	work	gerund	a certain queen not said here	the frame			at queen's window	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme
5	make	past · passive					of the frame; of fine black ebony	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
6	look out	past · progressive	queen				upon the snow	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
7	prick	past	queen	queen's finger				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient
8	fall	past	three drops of blood		blood			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon it=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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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