Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 52

Then they said, "The old woman was the queen; take care another time, and let no one in when we are away."

Who acts: dwarfs, old woman, we · What happens: say, be, take, let in · To what, where: queen, care, one · 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 (dwarfs, old woman, we), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 queen	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 queen	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 queen	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 queen	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 queen	det
11	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 take	punct
13	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
14	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 take	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 let	cc
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 take	conj
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 let	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	19 let	compound:prt
23	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 away	mark
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 away	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 away	cop
26	away	away	ADV	_	19 let	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 take	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	dwarfs = dwarf		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	past	the old woman	the queen			tree rules
3	take in a quote	infinitive		care	time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	let in in a quote	infinitive		no one			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	we			away 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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