Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 61
Meantime the queen went home to her glass, and trembled with rage when she received exactly the same answer as before; and she said, "Snow-White shall die, if it costs me my life."
Who acts: queen, Snow, answer · What happens: go, tremble, receive, say, die, cost · To what, where: Meantime, glass, same answer, life, 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, Snow, answer), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 glass | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 glass | nmod:poss |
| 8 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trembled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 trembled | cc |
| 11 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 rage | case |
| 13 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trembled | obl |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 received | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 received | nsubj |
| 16 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 trembled | advcl |
| 17 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 20 answer | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 answer | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 answer | amod |
| 20 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 received | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 before | case |
| 22 | before | before | ADV | _ | 20 answer | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 die | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 die | punct |
| 29 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 die | nsubj |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 White | punct |
| 31 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 die | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 die | aux |
| 33 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 said | ccomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 costs | punct |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 costs | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 costs | nsubj |
| 37 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 die | acl:relcl |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 costs | iobj |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 life | nmod:poss |
| 40 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 costs | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 die | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the queen | Meantime | queen's glass | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to glass=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | tremble | participle | the queen not said here | with rage | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | queen | the same answer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | die in a quote | shall | Snow | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | cost a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | answer | my life | queen | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary life=Value |
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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