Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 14
So he left her there alone; and though he thought it most likely that the wild beasts would tear her to pieces, he felt as if a great weight were taken off his heart when he had made up his mind not to kill her, but leave her to her fate.
Who acts: art, wild beasts, heart · What happens: leave, think, tear, feel, take off, make up · To what, where: girl, life, great weight, mind, heart, fate · 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 (art, wild beasts, heart), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | obj |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 left | advmod |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 thought | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obj |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 likely | advmod |
| 14 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 11 thought | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 tear | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beasts | det |
| 17 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 beasts | amod |
| 18 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tear | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 tear | aux |
| 20 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tear | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 pieces | case |
| 23 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tear | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 felt | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 felt | nsubj |
| 26 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | parataxis |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 taken | mark |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 taken | mark |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 weight | det |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 weight | amod |
| 31 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 taken | aux:pass |
| 33 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 felt | ccomp |
| 34 | off | off | ADP | _ | 33 taken | compound:prt |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 heart | nmod:poss |
| 36 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 taken | obj |
| 37 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 40 made | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 made | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 made | aux |
| 40 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 taken | advcl |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 made | compound:prt |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 mind | nmod:poss |
| 43 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 made | obj |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 kill | advmod |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 kill | mark |
| 46 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 made | advcl |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 kill | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 leave | punct |
| 49 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 50 leave | cc |
| 50 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 felt | conj |
| 51 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 leave | obj |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 54 fate | case |
| 53 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 fate | nmod:poss |
| 54 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 leave | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | art | girl | there | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | art | life | likely property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 3 | tear | would | the wild beasts | girl | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient to piece=Result | |||
| 4 | feel | past | art | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | take off a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | a great weight | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | make up | past · perfect | art | art's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 7 | not kill | to-infinitive | art not said here | heart | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 8 | leave | infinitive | art not said here | heart | heart's fate | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to fate=Recipient | |||
| 9 | mind | art | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | fate | heart | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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