Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 32
And they were delighted to see her, and took care not to waken her; and the seventh dwarf slept an hour with each of the other dwarfs in turn, till the night was gone.
Who acts: beds, seventh dwarf, night · What happens: be, see, take, not waken, sleep · To what, where: child, care
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 (beds, seventh dwarf, night), 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 | _ | 4 delighted | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 delighted | advcl |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | conj |
| 11 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 waken | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 waken | mark |
| 14 | waken | waken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 took | advcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 waken | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 slept | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 slept | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dwarf | det |
| 19 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dwarf | amod |
| 20 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 slept | nsubj |
| 21 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | parataxis |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hour | det |
| 23 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 slept | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 each | case |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 slept | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 dwarfs | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dwarfs | det |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 dwarfs | amod |
| 29 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 each | nmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 turn | case |
| 31 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dwarfs | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 gone | punct |
| 33 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 37 gone | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 night | det |
| 35 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gone | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 gone | cop |
| 37 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 slept | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | beds = bed | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | beds = bed not said here | child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take | past | beds = bed not said here | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not waken | to-infinitive | beds = bed not said here | child | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 5 | sleep | past | the seventh dwarf | hour | with each | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | is | past | the night | gone 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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