Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 59

But by good luck the dwarfs returned very early that evening; and when they saw Snow-White lying on the ground, they thought what had happened, and soon found the poisoned comb.

Who acts: dwarfs · What happens: return, see, lie, think, happen, find · To what, where: ground, poisoned comb · 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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 returned	cc
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 luck	case
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 luck	amod
4	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 returned	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dwarfs	det
6	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 returned	nsubj
7	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 early	advmod
9	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 returned	advmod
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 evening	det
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 returned	obl:unmarked
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 saw	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 returned	conj
17	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 White	obl
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Snow	punct
19	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 saw	xcomp
20	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 White	advcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 ground	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lying	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thought	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 thought	nsubj
26	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	advcl
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 happened	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 happened	aux
29	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 thought	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 found	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 found	cc
32	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 found	advmod
33	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 happened	parataxis
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 comb	det
35	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 comb	amod
36	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 found	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	the dwarfs			evening	by good luck; early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	dwarfs = dwarf				white property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	lie	gerund	dwarfs = dwarf not said here		the ground			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
4	think speech: other	past	dwarfs = dwarf					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	happen	past · perfect						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	find	past		the poisoned comb			soon property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Topic
7	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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