Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 5
She had a magical looking-glass, to which she used to go and gaze upon herself in it, and say--
Who acts: queen · What happens: have, look, use, go, gaze, say · To what, where: magical looking glass, glass · 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 (queen), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 glass | det |
| 4 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 glass | amod |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 glass | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 used | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 used | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 used | nsubj |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 used | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gaze | cc |
| 16 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 herself | case |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 gaze | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gaze | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 say | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 say | cc |
| 23 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | queen | a magical looking glass | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | use | past | queen | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | queen not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | gaze | infinitive | queen not said here | glass | upon queen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon herself=Theme | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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