Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 16
In the evening she came to a little cottage, and went in there to rest, for her weary feet would carry her no further.
Who acts: White, weary feet · What happens: come, go in, rest, carry · To what, where: little cottage, 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 (White, weary feet), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 cottage | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cottage | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cottage | amod |
| 9 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 rest | mark |
| 16 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 carry | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 carry | mark |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 feet | nmod:poss |
| 20 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feet | amod |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 carry | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 carry | aux |
| 23 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 rest | advcl |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 carry | obj |
| 25 | no | no | ADV | _ | 26 further | advmod |
| 26 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 carry | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | White | a little cottage | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | go in | past | White not said here | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | White not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | carry | would | White's weary feet | White | far property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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