Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 81
At last a prince came and called at the dwarfs' house; and he saw Snow-White and read what was written in golden letters.
Who acts: owl · What happens: come, call, see, read, write · To what, where: Snow White, golden letters · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (owl), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 prince | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 prince | amod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 called | cc |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dwarfs | det |
| 10 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 10 dwarfs | case |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 17 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 White | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Snow | punct |
| 19 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 read | cc |
| 21 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 saw | conj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 written | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 written | aux:pass |
| 24 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 read | ccomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 letters | case |
| 26 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 letters | amod |
| 27 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 written | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | at a last prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at prince=Location | |||||
| 2 | call | participle | at the dwarfs's house | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at house=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | owl | Snow White | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer white=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | read | infinitive | owl not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | write | past · passive | golden letters | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in letter=Destination |
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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