Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 15
Then poor Snow-White wandered along through the wood in great fear; and the wild beasts roared around, but none did her any harm.
Who acts: poor Snow, wild beasts, none · What happens: wander, roar around, do · To what, where: wood, White
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 (poor Snow, wild beasts, none), 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 wandered | advmod |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Snow | amod |
| 3 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wandered | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 White | punct |
| 5 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Snow | appos |
| 6 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 6 wandered | advmod |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wandered | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 fear | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fear | amod |
| 13 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wood | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 roared | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 roared | cc |
| 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 | 19 roared | nsubj |
| 19 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wandered | conj |
| 20 | around | around | ADV | _ | 19 roared | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 did | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 did | cc |
| 23 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 24 did | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wandered | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 did | obj |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 harm | det |
| 27 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 did | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | poor Snow | the wood in great fear | then | along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | roar around | past | the wild beasts | around property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | none | White | 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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