Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 56
Then the queen said, "Only look at my beautiful combs;" and gave her the poisoned one.
Who acts: queen · What happens: say, look, give, poison · To what, where: poisoned one, queen · 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), 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 | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
| 7 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 8 look | advmod |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 combs | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 combs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 combs | amod |
| 12 | combs | comb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 look | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 19 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 one | amod |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the queen | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | at my beautiful combs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at comb=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the queen not said here | the poisoned one | queen | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient one=Theme | |||
| 4 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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