Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 85
Then he told her all that had happened, and said, "I love you better than all the world; come with me to my father's palace, and you shall be my wife."
Who acts: prince, that, White · What happens: tell, happen, say, love, come, be · To what, where: White, palace, wife · 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 (prince, that, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 happened | det:predet |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happened | aux |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 love | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 love | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 love | nsubj |
| 15 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 love | obj |
| 17 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 love | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 world | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 better | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 come | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 palace | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 father | nmod:poss |
| 28 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 palace | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 father | case |
| 30 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 wife | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 wife | cc |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 wife | nsubj |
| 34 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 wife | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 wife | cop |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 wife | nmod:poss |
| 37 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | parataxis |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 wife | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | prince | White | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | love in a quote | present | prince | White | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | come in a quote | infinitive | prince not said here | my father's palace | with prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | is a in a quote | shall | White | my wife | 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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