Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 45

I will let the old lady in; she seems to be a very good sort of a body," thought Snow-White; so she ran down, and unbolted the door. "

Who acts: I, White, good sort · What happens: let in, seem, be, think, run down, unbolt · To what, where: old lady, good sort, Snow White, door

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 (I, White, good sort), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 let	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obj
7	in	in	ADV	_	3 let	compound:prt
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 seems	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seems	nsubj
10	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 let	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	16 sort	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 sort	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sort	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 good	advmod
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sort	amod
16	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seems	xcomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 body	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 body	det
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sort	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sort	acl
23	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 White	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Snow	punct
25	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 thought	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 ran	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 ran	advmod
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ran	nsubj
29	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 let	parataxis
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 ran	compound:prt
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 unbolted	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 unbolted	cc
33	unbolted	unbolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ran	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 door	det
35	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 unbolted	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in	future	I	the old lady		tree rules
2	seem	present	White			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive	White not said here	a good sort	of a body	tree rules
4	think speech: other in a quote	past	a good sort not said here	Snow White		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot white=Theme
5	run down in a quote	past	White			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	unbolt in a quote	past	White not said here	the door		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

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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