Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 8
And the glass answered, "Thou, Queen, art fairest in the land"
Who acts: glass · What happens: answer
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 (glass), 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 | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 glass | det |
| 3 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fairest | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Thou | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Thou | punct |
| 7 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Queen | punct |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Thou | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fairest | punct |
| 11 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fairest | nsubj |
| 12 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fairest | obl |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 land | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the glass | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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