Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 69

Then Snow-White was very much tempted to taste, for the apple looked exceedingly nice; and when she saw the old woman eat, she could refrain no longer.

Who acts: you, apple, White, old woman, woman · What happens: snow, tempt, taste, look, see, eat · To what, where: White · 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 (you, apple, White, old woman), 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	2 Snow	advmod
2	Snow	snow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 White	punct
4	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tempted	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tempted	aux:pass
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 tempted	advmod
8	tempted	tempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Snow	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 taste	mark
10	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tempted	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 looked	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 apple	det
14	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looked	nsubj
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 taste	advcl
16	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	17 nice	advmod
17	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 looked	xcomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 saw	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 saw	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Snow	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 woman	det
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 woman	amod
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eat	nsubj
26	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 saw	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 refrain	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 refrain	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 refrain	aux
30	refrain	refrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Snow	conj
31	no	no	ADV	_	32 longer	advmod
32	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 refrain	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Snow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	snow	imperative	you not said here		then		tree rules
2	tempt	past · passive		White			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	taste	to-infinitive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	look	past	the apple			nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	see	past	White				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	eat	infinitive	the old woman				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	refrain	could	woman			long property	vn refrain-69 «NP V»: 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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