Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 3

And so the little girl grew up; her skin was a white as snow, her cheeks as rosy as blood, and her hair as black as ebony; and she was called Snow-White.

Who acts: little girl, skin, cheeks · What happens: grow up, be, call · To what, where: hair, girl · 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 (little girl, skin, cheeks), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 grew	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 grew	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 grew	compound:prt
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 white	punct
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 skin	nmod:poss
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 white	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 white	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 white	det
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grew	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 snow	case
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 white	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rosy	punct
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 cheeks	nmod:poss
18	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 rosy	nsubj
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 rosy	advmod
20	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 white	conj
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 blood	case
22	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rosy	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hair	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hair	cc
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hair	nmod:poss
26	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	obl
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 black	case
28	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hair	amod
29	as	as	ADP	_	30 ebony	case
30	ebony	ebony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 black	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 called	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 called	cc
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 called	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 called	aux:pass
35	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 grew	conj
36	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 White	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Snow	punct
38	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 called	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow up	past	the little girl	girl's hair		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	girl's skin		as snow; white property	tree rules
3	be		girl's cheeks		as blood	tree rules
4	call	past · passive		girl		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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