Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 57

And it looked so pretty that the little girl took it up and put it into her hair to try it; but the moment it touched her head the poison was so powerful that she fell down senseless. "

Who acts: it, little girl, comb, moment, queen · What happens: look, take up, put, try, touch, be · To what, where: comb, hair, head

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 (it, little girl, comb, moment), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 looked	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 pretty	advmod
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 took	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girl	amod
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 took	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 took	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 hair	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hair	nmod:poss
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 try	mark
20	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 put	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 try	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 powerful	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 powerful	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moment	det
25	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 powerful	nsubj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 touched	nsubj
27	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 moment	acl:relcl
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 touched	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 poison	det
31	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 powerful	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 powerful	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 powerful	advmod
34	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 fell	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fell	nsubj
37	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 powerful	advcl
38	down	down	ADV	_	37 fell	advmod
39	senseless	senseless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 fell	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	it			pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	take up	past	the little girl	comb			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	put	infinitive	the little girl not said here	comb	queen's hair		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
4	try	to-infinitive	the little girl not said here	comb			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	touch	past	comb	queen's head			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-Theme
6	is	past	the moment			powerful property	tree rules
7	fall down	past	queen			down, senseless property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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