Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 50

In the evening the seven dwarfs returned; and I need not say how grieved they were to see their faithful Snow-White stretched upon the ground motionless, as if she were quite dead.

Who acts: seven dwarfs, I, dwarfs, White · What happens: return, not say, grieve, see, stretch, be · To what, where: faithful Snow · 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 (seven dwarfs, I, dwarfs, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 returned	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dwarfs	det
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 dwarfs	nummod
6	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 returned	nsubj
7	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 say	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 say	nsubj
11	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 say	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 say	advmod
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 returned	conj
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 grieved	advmod
15	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 see	advcl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	ccomp
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 Snow	nmod:poss
21	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Snow	amod
22	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 White	punct
24	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 stretched	nsubj
25	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 see	advcl
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 ground	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ground	det
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stretched	obl
29	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stretched	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dead	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 dead	mark
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 dead	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 dead	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 dead	cop
35	quite	quite	ADV	_	36 dead	advmod
36	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 see	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	the seven dwarfs		evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not say speech: assert	present	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	grieve	participle	dwarfs = dwarf not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	see	past	dwarfs = dwarf	dwarfs's faithful Snow			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snow=Stimulus
5	stretch	past	White			upon the ground; motionless property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	White			dead property	tree rules
7	snow		dwarfs = dwarf				nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=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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