Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 48

Snow-White did not dream of any mischief; so she stood up before the old woman who set to work so nimbly, and pulled the lace so tightly that Snow-White lost her breath, and fell down as if she were dead. "

Who acts: Snow, White, old woman, Snow White · What happens: not dream, stand up, set, work, pull, lose · To what, where: lace, breath

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, White, old woman, Snow White), 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	6 dream	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 White	punct
3	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Snow	vocative
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dream	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 dream	advmod
6	dream	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mischief	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 mischief	det
9	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dream	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 stood	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dream	parataxis
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 stood	compound:prt
15	before	before	ADP	_	18 woman	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 set	nsubj
20	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 woman	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 work	mark
22	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 set	xcomp
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 nimbly	advmod
24	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	_	22 work	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pulled	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 pulled	cc
27	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lace	det
29	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pulled	obj
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 tightly	advmod
31	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	27 pulled	advmod
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 lost	mark
33	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 White	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 Snow	punct
35	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 lost	nsubj
36	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pulled	advcl
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 breath	nmod:poss
38	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 lost	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 fell	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 fell	cc
41	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	conj
42	down	down	ADP	_	41 fell	compound:prt
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	47 dead	mark
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 dead	mark
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 dead	nsubj
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 dead	cop
47	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 fell	advcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dream	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 dream	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not dream	past · do-support	Snow			of any mischief	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	stand up	past	White		before the old woman		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before woman=Location
3	set	past	the old woman				tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here			nimbly property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pull	past	White not said here	the lace		tightly property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lace=Theme
6	lose	past	Snow White	White's breath			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Eventuality
7	fall down	past	White not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is	past	White			dead property	tree rules

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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