Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 55

When she reached the dwarfs' cottage, she knocked at the door, and cried, "Fine wares to sell!" but Snow-White said, "I dare not let any one in."

Who acts: queen, Snow · What happens: reach, knock, cry, sell, say, let in · To what, where: cottage, Fine wares, 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 (queen, Snow), 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	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 knocked	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dwarfs	det
5	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cottage	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 dwarfs	case
7	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knocked	nsubj
10	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 door	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knocked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 cried	cc
16	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 knocked	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wares	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 wares	punct
19	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wares	amod
20	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cried	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 sell	mark
22	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wares	acl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 wares	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 wares	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
26	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	nsubj
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 Snow	punct
28	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 said	nsubj
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cried	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 let	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 let	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 let	nsubj
33	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 let	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 dare	advmod
35	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	ccomp
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 let	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	35 let	compound:prt
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 let	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past	queen	the dwarfs's cottage		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme
2	knock	past	queen		at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
3	cry speech: express	past	queen not said here	Fine wares		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ware=Topic
4	sell in a quote	to-infinitive	queen not said here	Fine wares not said here		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	Snow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	let in in a quote	present	Snow	any one		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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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