Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 63

Then she dressed herself up as a peasant's wife, and travelled over the hills to the dwarfs' cottage, and knocked at the door; but Snow-White put her head out of the window, and said, "I dare not let any one in, for the dwarfs have told me not to." "

Who acts: queen, White · What happens: dress up, travel, knock, put, say, not dare · To what, where: queen, hills, Snow, window, one, dwarfs · 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, White), 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	3 dressed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dressed	nsubj
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 dressed	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 dressed	compound:prt
6	as	as	ADP	_	10 wife	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 peasant	det
8	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wife	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 peasant	case
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 travelled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 travelled	cc
13	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 hills	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hills	det
16	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 travelled	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 cottage	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dwarfs	det
19	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cottage	nmod:poss
20	'	's	PART	_	19 dwarfs	case
21	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 travelled	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knocked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 knocked	cc
24	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 travelled	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 door	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knocked	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 put	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 put	cc
30	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 put	obl:unmarked
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Snow	punct
32	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 put	nsubj
33	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 head	nmod:poss
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 put	obj
36	out	out	ADP	_	39 window	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 window	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 window	det
39	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 put	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 said	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 said	cc
42	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 said	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 dare	punct
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 dare	nsubj
46	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 said	ccomp
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	46 dare	advmod
48	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 dare	xcomp
49	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	50 one	det
50	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 let	obj
51	in	in	ADV	_	48 let	compound:prt
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 told	punct
53	for	for	SCONJ	_	57 told	mark
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 dwarfs	det
55	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 told	nsubj:pass
56	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 told	aux
57	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 let	conj
58	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 told	iobj
59	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 told	advmod
60	to	to	PART	_	59 not	fixed
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct
63	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress up	past	queen	queen			then	as a peasant's wife	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
2	travel	past	queen not said here			the hills		to the dwarfs's cottage	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Destination
3	knock	past	queen not said here					at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
4	put	past	White	Snow		the window			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out window=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past	queen not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not dare in a quote	present	queen						vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	not let in in a quote	infinitive	queen not said here	any one					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
8	not tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the dwarfs	queen				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic

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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