Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 78
And the birds of the air came, too, and bemoaned Snow-White.
Who acts: birds · What happens: come, bemoan · To what, where: Snow White
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 (birds), 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 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 birds | det |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 air | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 birds | nmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 too | punct |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bemoaned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bemoaned | cc |
| 12 | bemoaned | bemoan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 13 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 White | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Snow | punct |
| 15 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bemoaned | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the birds of the air | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bemoan | past | the birds of the air not said here | Snow White | 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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