Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 74
They lifted her up, and combed her hair, and washed her face with wine and water; but all was in vain.
Who acts: dwarfs, all · What happens: lift up, comb, wash, be · To what, where: breath, hair, face
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 (dwarfs, all), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 lifted | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 combed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 combed | cc |
| 7 | combed | comb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 combed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 washed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 washed | cc |
| 12 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 washed | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 wine | case |
| 16 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 washed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 water | cc |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wine | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 vain | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 vain | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 vain | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 vain | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 vain | case |
| 24 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lifted | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past | dwarfs = dwarf | breath | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | comb | past | dwarfs = dwarf not said here | breath's hair | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wash | past | dwarfs = dwarf not said here | breath's face | with wine and water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent face=Patient with wine=Instrument | |||
| 4 | is | past | all | vain 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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