Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 62

So she went secretly into a chamber, and prepared a poisoned apple: the outside looked very rosy and tempting, but whosoever tasted it was sure to die.

Who acts: queen, outside, whosoever, it · What happens: go, prepare, poison, look, tempt, taste · To what, where: chamber, poisoned apple

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, outside, whosoever, it), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 chamber	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chamber	det
7	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 prepared	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 prepared	cc
10	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 apple	det
12	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 apple	amod
13	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 prepared	obj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 outside	det
16	outside	outside	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 looked	nsubj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 rosy	advmod
19	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 looked	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tempting	cc
21	tempting	tempt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 rosy	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tasted	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 tasted	cc
24	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 tasted	nsubj
25	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 looked	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sure	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sure	cop
28	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tasted	xcomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 die	mark
30	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sure	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	queen		a chamber	secretly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial_Location
2	prepare	past		a poisoned apple			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient
3	poison	participle					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	look	past	the outside			rosy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	tempt	gerund	the outside not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	taste	past	whosoever				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	is	past	it			sure property	tree rules
8	die	to-infinitive					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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