Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 72
And then her envious heart was glad, and as happy as such a heart could be.
Who acts: envious heart · What happens: be
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 (envious heart), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 glad | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 glad | advmod |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heart | amod |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glad | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 glad | cop |
| 7 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 happy | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 happy | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 happy | advmod |
| 11 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 glad | parataxis |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 be | mark |
| 13 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 heart | det:predet |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 heart | det |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 be | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 be | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 happy | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | queen's envious heart | then | glad property | tree rules |
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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