Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 33

In the morning Snow-White told them all her story, and they pitied her, and said if she would keep all things in order, and cook and wash, and knit and spin for them, she might stay where she was, and they would take good care of her.

Who acts: White, beds · What happens: tell, pity, say, keep, cook, wash · To what, where: story, beds, morning Snow, White, things, order · 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 (White, beds), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 Snow	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Snow	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Snow	compound
4	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obl
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Snow	punct
6	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 story	det:predet
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 story	nmod:poss
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pitied	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pitied	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pitied	nsubj
15	pitied	pity	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pitied	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pitied	conj
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 keep	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 keep	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 keep	aux
23	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 things	det
25	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 keep	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 order	case
27	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keep	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 cook	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cook	cc
30	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 keep	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wash	cc
32	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 cook	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 knit	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 knit	cc
35	knit	knit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	conj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 spin	cc
37	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 knit	conj
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 spin	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 stay	punct
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 stay	nsubj
42	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 stay	aux
43	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 knit	conj
44	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	46 was	advmod
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 was	nsubj
46	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 stay	advcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 take	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 take	cc
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 take	nsubj
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 take	aux
51	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	parataxis
52	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 care	amod
53	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 take	obj
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 her	case
55	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 care	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	White	White's story	beds = bed	the morning Snow		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic
2	pity	past	beds = bed	White				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	beds = bed not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	keep a condition, not said to happen	would	White	all things		order		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in order=Location
5	cook	infinitive	White not said here					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	wash	infinitive	White not said here					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	knit	infinitive	White not said here					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	spin	infinitive	White not said here				for beds = bed	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary
9	stay	might	White					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	be	past	White					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	take	would	beds = bed	good care of White				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
12	care		White					nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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