Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 83

At last, however, they had pity on him, and gave him the coffin; but the moment he lifted it up to carry it home with him, the piece of apple fell from between her lips, and Snow-White awoke, and exclaimed, "Where am I!"

Who acts: letters, moment, piece, White, I · What happens: have, give, lift up, carry, fall, awake · To what, where: pity, coffin, owl, last, lips, Snow · 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 (letters, moment, piece, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lifted	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	advcl
8	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 coffin	det
16	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 lifted	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 lifted	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 moment	det
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lifted	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lifted	nsubj
22	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lifted	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 lifted	compound:prt
25	to	to	PART	_	26 carry	mark
26	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 lifted	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carry	obj
28	home	home	ADV	_	26 carry	advmod
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carry	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fell	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 piece	det
33	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fell	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 apple	case
35	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 piece	nmod
36	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lifted	conj
37	from	from	ADP	_	40 lips	case
38	between	between	ADP	_	40 lips	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 lips	nmod:poss
40	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fell	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 awoke	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 awoke	cc
43	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 awoke	obl
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 Snow	punct
45	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 awoke	nsubj
46	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lifted	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 exclaimed	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 exclaimed	cc
49	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 awoke	parataxis
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 Where	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 Where	punct
52	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	49 exclaimed	advmod
53	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 Where	cop
54	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 Where	nsubj
55	!	!	PUNCT	_	49 exclaimed	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	letters = letter	pity			on owl; however property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
2	give	past	letters = letter not said here	the coffin	owl			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient coffin=Theme
3	lift up	past	the moment	coffin		last		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at last=Destination
4	carry	to-infinitive	the moment not said here	coffin			with owl; home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	fall	past	the piece of apple			White's lips		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lip=Initial_Location
6	awake	past	White	Snow				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	exclaim speech: express	participle						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
8	is in a quote	present	I				where 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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