Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 89
And the glass answered, "Thou, lady, art the loveliest _here_, I ween; But lovelier far is the new-made queen."
Who acts: glass, Thou · What happens: answer, lady, ween, make, be · To what, where: made queen · 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 (glass, Thou), 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 | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 glass | det |
| 3 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 queen | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lady | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 lady | punct |
| 7 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 lady | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lady | punct |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 art | punct |
| 11 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lady | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 loveliest | det |
| 13 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 art | appos |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 here | punct |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 lady | parataxis |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 here | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ween | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 ween | nsubj |
| 19 | ween | ween | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 lovelier | punct |
| 21 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 lovelier | cc |
| 22 | lovelier | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 answered | conj |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 lovelier | advmod |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 queen | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 queen | det |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 made | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 new | punct |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 queen | amod |
| 29 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 queen | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 queen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the glass | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lady in a quote | Thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | ween in a quote | present | the glass = glass | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | the made queen | 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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