Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 87

To the feast was invited, among the rest, Snow-White's old enemy, the queen; and as she was dressing herself in fine, rich clothes, she looked in the glass and said, "Tell me, glass, tell me true!

Who acts: Snow, White · What happens: invite, enemy, dress, look, say, tell · To what, where: White, fine rich clothes, glass · 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 (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	To	to	ADP	_	3 feast	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 feast	det
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 invited	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 invited	aux:pass
5	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rest	punct
7	among	among	ADP	_	9 rest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rest	det
9	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 invited	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 enemy	punct
11	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 enemy	nsubj
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 White	punct
13	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 enemy	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 White	case
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 enemy	amod
16	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rest	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 queen	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 queen	det
19	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 enemy	appos
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 dressing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dressing	cc
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 dressing	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dressing	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dressing	aux
25	dressing	dress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 invited	advcl
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 dressing	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 clothes	case
28	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 clothes	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fine	punct
30	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 clothes	amod
31	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 dressing	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 looked	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 looked	nsubj
34	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 invited	parataxis
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 glass	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 glass	det
37	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 looked	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 said	cc
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 looked	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Tell	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 Tell	punct
42	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 said	ccomp
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 Tell	iobj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 glass	punct
45	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 Tell	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 tell	punct
47	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 Tell	conj
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 tell	iobj
49	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 tell	xcomp
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 invited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	invite	past · passive					to the feast; among the rest and White's old enemy	vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»
2	enemy		Snow					tree rules
3	dress	past · progressive	White	White		fine rich clothes		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
4	look	past	White				in the glass	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in glass=Theme
5	say speech: express	past	White not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		glass	White			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient glass=Topic
7	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			White		true property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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