Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 53
When the queen got home, she went to her glass, and spoke to it, but to her surprise it replied in the same words as before.
Who acts: queen, care · What happens: get, go, speak, reply, surprise · To what, where: glass, care, same words · 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, care), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 glass | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 glass | nmod:poss |
| 11 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spoke | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spoke | cc |
| 14 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spoke | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 replied | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 replied | cc |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 surprise | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 21 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 replied | obl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 replied | nsubj |
| 23 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 words | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 words | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 words | amod |
| 27 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 replied | obl |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 before | case |
| 29 | before | before | ADV | _ | 23 replied | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the queen | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past | queen | queen's glass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to glass=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | queen not said here | care | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | care | the same words | to queen's surprise | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to surprise=Theme | |||
| 5 | surprise | queen | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: 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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