Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 70

But she had scarcely put the piece into her mouth when she fell down dead upon the ground. "

Who acts: woman · What happens: put, fall down · To what, where: piece, mouth, ground

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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 put	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux
4	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	5 put	advmod
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 piece	det
7	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mouth	nmod:poss
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 fell	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	advcl
14	down	down	ADV	_	15 dead	advmod
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fell	xcomp
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · perfect	woman	the piece		woman's mouth		scarcely property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal
2	fall down	past	woman			the ground		dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ground=Location

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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