Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 13
Then the servant led the little girl away; but his heart melted when she begged him to spare her life, and he said, "I will not hurt thee, thou pretty child."
Who acts: servant, heart, art, thou · What happens: lead, melt, beg, spare, say, not hurt · To what, where: little girl, art, life, thee · 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 (servant, heart, art, thou), 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 | 4 led | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 servant | det |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 led | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 melted | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 melted | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 melted | nsubj |
| 13 | melted | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | conj |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 begged | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 begged | nsubj |
| 16 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 melted | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 begged | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 spare | mark |
| 19 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 begged | xcomp |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spare | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hurt | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 hurt | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 hurt | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 hurt | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 hurt | advmod |
| 31 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | ccomp |
| 32 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 hurt | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 child | punct |
| 34 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 child | nsubj |
| 35 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 36 child | advmod |
| 36 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hurt | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 hurt | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the servant | the little girl | then | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | ||
| 2 | melt | past | art's heart | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | heart | art | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | spare not said to happen | to-infinitive | heart not said here | heart's life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | art | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | not hurt in a quote | future | art | thee | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Patient | ||||
| 7 | child in a quote | thou | pretty 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: «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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