Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 12
When the queen heard this she turned pale with rage and envy; and calling to one of her servants said, "Take Snow-White away into the wide wood, that I may never see her more."
Who acts: queen, calling · What happens: hear, turn, call, say, take, not see · To what, where: this, one, Snow White, wide wood, White · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (queen, calling), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 8 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 turned | xcomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 rage | case |
| 10 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pale | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 envy | cc |
| 12 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rage | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 15 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 said | csubj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 calling | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 servants | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 servants | nmod:poss |
| 20 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Take | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Take | punct |
| 24 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 25 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 White | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Snow | punct |
| 27 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Take | obj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 Take | advmod |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 wood | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wood | det |
| 31 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 wood | amod |
| 32 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Take | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 see | punct |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 see | mark |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 see | nsubj |
| 36 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 see | aux |
| 37 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 38 see | advmod |
| 38 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 Take | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 see | obj |
| 40 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 38 see | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the queen | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | queen | pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | one of queen's servants | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | calling | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | take in a quote | infinitive | Snow White | the wide wood | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent white=Theme into wood=Destination | |||
| 6 | not see in a quote | may | calling | White | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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