Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 44
Good wares, fine wares," replied she; "laces and bobbins of all colors." "
Who acts: Good wares · What happens: reply · To what, where: White
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 (Good wares), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wares | amod |
| 2 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wares | punct |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wares | amod |
| 5 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wares | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wares | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 laces | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 laces | punct |
| 12 | laces | lace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 replied | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bobbins | cc |
| 14 | bobbins | bobbin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 laces | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 colors | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 colors | det |
| 17 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bobbins | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 laces | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 laces | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | Good wares and fine wares | White | laces and bobbins of all colors obl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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