Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 73

When evening came, and the dwarfs returned home, they found Snow-White lying on the ground; no breath passed her lips, and they were afraid that she was quite dead.

Who acts: evening, dwarfs, breath · What happens: come, return, find, lie, pass, be · To what, where: ground, lips

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 (evening, dwarfs, breath), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 returned	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 returned	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dwarfs	det
7	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 returned	nsubj
8	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 returned	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 White	obl
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Snow	punct
15	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 found	xcomp
16	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 White	advcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 ground	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ground	det
19	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lying	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 passed	punct
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 breath	det
22	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passed	nsubj
23	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	conj
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 lips	nmod:poss
25	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 passed	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 afraid	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 afraid	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 afraid	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 afraid	cop
30	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 passed	parataxis
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 dead	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 dead	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 dead	cop
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 dead	advmod
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 afraid	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	evening				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	return	past	the dwarfs			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	dwarfs = dwarf			white property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	lie	gerund	dwarfs = dwarf not said here		the ground		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
5	pass	past	no breath	breath's lips			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lip=Trajectory
6	is	past	dwarfs = dwarf			afraid property	tree rules
7	is	past	breath			dead 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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