Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 80

And thus Snow-White lay for a long, long time, and still only looked as though she were asleep; for she was even now as white as snow, and as red as blood, and as black as ebony.

Who acts: thus Snow, White · What happens: lie, look, be

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 (thus Snow, White), 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	_	6 lay	cc
2	thus	thus	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Snow	amod
3	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	nsubj
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 White	punct
5	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	12 time	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 long	punct
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looked	cc
15	still	still	ADV	_	17 looked	advmod
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 looked	advmod
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	conj
18	as	as	ADV	_	17 looked	advmod
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 asleep	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 asleep	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 asleep	cop
22	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 looked	advcl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 white	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 white	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 white	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 white	cop
27	even	even	ADV	_	28 now	advmod
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 white	advmod
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 white	advmod
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lay	conj
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 snow	case
32	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 white	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 red	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 red	cc
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 red	case
36	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lay	advcl
37	as	as	ADP	_	38 blood	case
38	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 red	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 black	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 black	cc
41	as	as	ADV	_	42 black	advmod
42	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 red	conj
43	as	as	ADP	_	44 ebony	case
44	ebony	ebony	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 black	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	thus Snow	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	past	thus Snow not said here	still		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	White		asleep property	tree rules
4	is	past	White	now	as snow; white 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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