Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 71

This time nothing will save thee," said the queen; and she went home to her glass, and at last it said--"Thou, Queen, art the fairest of all the fair."

Who acts: nothing, queen, apple · What happens: save, say, go · To what, where: thee, glass, last · 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 (nothing, queen, apple), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 save	obl:unmarked
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 save	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 save	aux
5	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	5 save	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 save	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 queen	det
11	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 save	parataxis
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 glass	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 glass	nmod:poss
19	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 said	obl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 went	conj
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 Thou	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Thou	punct
28	Thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 said	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Queen	punct
30	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Thou	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 art	punct
32	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Thou	appos
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fairest	det
34	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 art	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 fair	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 fair	det:predet
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 fair	det
38	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fairest	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	future	nothing	thee		time		tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the queen					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	go in a quote	past	queen		queen's glass		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to glass=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	apple		last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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