Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 76

And they made a coffin of glass so that they might still look at her, and wrote her name upon it in golden letters, and that she was a king's daughter.

Who acts: dwarfs, breath · What happens: make, look, write, be, name · To what, where: coffin, name, golden letters, daughter

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, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 made	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coffin	det
5	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 glass	case
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coffin	nmod
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 look	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 look	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 look	aux
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 look	advmod
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 look	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wrote	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wrote	cc
18	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 name	nmod:poss
20	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wrote	obj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wrote	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 letters	case
24	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 letters	amod
25	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wrote	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 daughter	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 daughter	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 daughter	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 daughter	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 daughter	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 king	det
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 daughter	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 king	case
34	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	dwarfs = dwarf	a coffin of glass				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset coffin=Product
2	look	might	dwarfs = dwarf			still	at breath	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
3	write	past	dwarfs = dwarf not said here	breath's name	golden letters		upon face	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme in letter=Destination
4	is a	past	breath	a king's daughter				tree rules
5	name		breath					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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