Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 43

Snow-White looked out of the window, and said, "Good day, good woman; what have you to sell?" "

Who acts: Snow, you · What happens: look out, say, sell · To what, where: window · 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 (Snow, you), 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	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Snow	punct
3	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 window	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 day	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 day	punct
14	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 day	amod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 woman	punct
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 day	appos
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sell	punct
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 sell	obj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sell	aux
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 sell	nsubj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 sell	mark
24	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 looked	parataxis
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 sell	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 sell	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look out	past	Snow	the window	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Snow not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	sell in a quote	present	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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