Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 40
Then the queen was very much alarmed; for she knew that the glass always spoke the truth, and she was sure that the servant had betrayed her.
Who acts: queen, glass · What happens: alarm, know, speak, be, betray · To what, where: queen, truth, servant · 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, glass), 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 | 7 alarmed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 alarmed | advmod |
| 7 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 knew | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 alarmed | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 spoke | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 glass | det |
| 14 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spoke | nsubj |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 spoke | advmod |
| 16 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 knew | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 truth | det |
| 18 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spoke | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sure | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sure | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sure | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sure | cop |
| 23 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 knew | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 betrayed | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 servant | det |
| 26 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 betrayed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 betrayed | aux |
| 28 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 sure | ccomp |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 betrayed | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 alarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm | past · passive | the queen | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | know | past | queen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the glass | the truth | always property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | queen | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | betray | past · perfect · passive | the servant | 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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