Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 10
Then the glass one day answered queen, when she went to consult it as usual--
Who acts: glass day, queen · What happens: answer, go, consult · To what, where: queen, snow
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 (glass day, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 answered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 3 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | compound |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 glass | flat |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 went | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 consult | mark |
| 13 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 consult | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 usual | case |
| 16 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 consult | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the glass day | queen | then | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | go | past | queen | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | consult | to-infinitive | queen not said here | snow | as usual | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent it=Theme as usual=Value |
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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