Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 46
Bless me!" said the woman, "how badly your stays are laced.
Who acts: woman · What happens: bless, say, stay, lace · To what, where: me · 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 (woman), 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 | Bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Bless | obj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bless | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bless | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stays | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 stays | punct |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 badly | advmod |
| 11 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 stays | advmod |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 stays | nmod:poss |
| 13 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 woman | acl:relcl |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 laced | aux:pass |
| 15 | laced | lace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 stays | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | infinitive | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stay | present | badly property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lace | present · passive | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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