Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 41
And as she could not bear to think that any one lived who was more beautiful than she was, she disguised herself as an old pedlar woman and went her way over the hills to the place where the dwarfs dwelt.
Who acts: queen, one, dwarfs · What happens: not bear, think, live, be, disguise, go · To what, where: queen, way, hills · 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, one, dwarfs), 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 bear | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 bear | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bear | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 bear | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 bear | advmod |
| 6 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 think | mark |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bear | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 lived | mark |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | ccomp |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 beautiful | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 beautiful | cop |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lived | ccomp |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 was | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 was | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 beautiful | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 disguised | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 disguised | nsubj |
| 22 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lived | conj |
| 23 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 disguised | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 woman | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 woman | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 woman | amod |
| 27 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 woman | compound |
| 28 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 disguised | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 went | cc |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 disguised | conj |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 way | nmod:poss |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | obj |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 35 hills | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hills | det |
| 35 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 went | obl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 place | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 place | det |
| 38 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | obl |
| 39 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 dwelt | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 dwarfs | det |
| 41 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 dwelt | nsubj |
| 42 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 place | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bear | could | queen | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | queen not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live | past | any one | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | beautiful property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be | past | queen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | disguise | past | queen | queen | as a old pedlar woman | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Destination | |||
| 7 | go | past | queen not said here | queen's way | the hills | to the place | tree rules | ||
| 8 | dwell | past | the dwarfs | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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