Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 2

Then she gazed thoughtfully down on the red drops which sprinkled the white snow and said, "Would that my little daughter may be as white as that snow, as red as the blood, and as black as the ebony window-frame!"

Who acts: queen, red drops, little daughter · What happens: gaze, sprinkle, say, be · To what, where: red drops, white snow · 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 (queen, red drops, little daughter), 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	3 gazed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gazed	nsubj
3	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	_	5 down	advmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	3 gazed	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 drops	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 drops	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 drops	amod
9	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gazed	obl
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 sprinkled	nsubj
11	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 drops	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 snow	det
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 snow	amod
14	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sprinkled	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sprinkled	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 white	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 white	punct
19	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 white	aux
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 white	mark
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 daughter	nmod:poss
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 daughter	amod
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 white	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 white	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 white	cop
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 white	advmod
27	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 snow	case
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 snow	det
30	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 white	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 red	punct
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 red	case
33	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 white	conj
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 blood	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 blood	det
36	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 red	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 black	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 black	cc
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 black	advmod
40	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gazed	parataxis
41	as	as	ADP	_	46 frame	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 frame	det
43	ebony	ebony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 frame	amod
44	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 frame	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 window	punct
46	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 black	obl
47	!	!	PUNCT	_	40 black	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 gazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gaze	past	queen		the red drops	then	down property	tree rules
2	sprinkle	past	the red drops	the white snow				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent snow=Theme
3	say speech: express	past	the red drops not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	may	my little daughter				as that snow; white property	tree rules
5	be in a quote		my little daughter not said here				as the blood	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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