Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 51

However, they lifted her up, and when they found what was the matter, they cut the lace; and in a little time she began to breathe, and soon came to herself again.

Who acts: dwarfs, matter, White · What happens: lift up, find, be, cut, begin, breathe · To what, where: White, lace

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 (dwarfs, matter, 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 lifted	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lifted	nsubj
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lifted	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 lifted	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 found	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 found	obj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 what	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 matter	det
15	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 what	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cut	nsubj
18	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lace	det
20	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cut	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 began	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 began	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 time	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 time	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 time	amod
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 began	obl
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 began	nsubj
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 breathe	mark
30	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 began	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 came	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 came	cc
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 came	advmod
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 herself	case
36	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 came	obl
37	again	again	ADV	_	34 came	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	lift up	past	dwarfs = dwarf	White			however property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	find	past	dwarfs = dwarf					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the matter					tree rules
4	cut	present	dwarfs = dwarf	the lace				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lace=Product
5	begin	past	White			time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	breathe	to-infinitive	White not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	come	past	dwarfs = dwarf not said here		White	again	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to herself=Initial_Location

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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