Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 18

Then, as she was exceedingly hungry, she picked a little piece off each loaf, and drank a very little wine out of each glass; and after that she thought she would lie down and rest.

Who acts: spruce · What happens: be, pick, drink, think, lie down, rest · To what, where: little piece, little wine, glass · 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 (spruce), 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	10 picked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 hungry	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hungry	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hungry	cop
6	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	7 hungry	advmod
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 picked	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hungry	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 picked	nsubj
10	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 piece	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 piece	amod
13	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 picked	obj
14	off	off	ADP	_	16 loaf	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 loaf	det
16	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 picked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drank	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 drank	cc
19	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 picked	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 wine	det
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 little	advmod
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wine	amod
23	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drank	obj
24	out	out	ADP	_	27 glass	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 glass	case
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 glass	det
27	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drank	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 thought	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 thought	cc
30	after	after	ADP	_	31 that	case
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 thought	obl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 thought	nsubj
33	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 picked	conj
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lie	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 lie	aux
36	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 thought	ccomp
37	down	down	ADV	_	36 lie	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 rest	cc
39	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 lie	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 picked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	spruce				exceedingly, hungry property	tree rules
2	pick	past	spruce	a little piece		then	off each loaf	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
3	drink	past	spruce not said here	a little wine	each glass			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient
4	think speech: other	past	spruce			after that		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	lie down	would	spruce				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	rest	infinitive	spruce not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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