Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 21
They lighted up their seven lamps, and saw directly that all was not right.
Who acts: masters, all · What happens: light up, see, not be · To what, where: seven lamps
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 (masters, all), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lighted | nsubj |
| 2 | lighted | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 lighted | compound:prt |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lamps | nmod:poss |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 lamps | nummod |
| 6 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lighted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saw | cc |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lighted | conj |
| 10 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 9 saw | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 right | mark |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 right | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 right | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 right | advmod |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 saw | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light up | past | masters = master | masters's seven lamps | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Product | ||||
| 2 | see | past | masters = master not said here | directly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | all | right property | 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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