Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 9
But Snow-White grew more and more beautiful; and when she was seven years old, she was as bright as the day, and fairer than the queen herself.
Who acts: Snow, White · What happens: grow, be
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 grew | cc |
| 2 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Snow | punct |
| 4 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 grew | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 beautiful | cc |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 beautiful | advmod |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 more | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 bright | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bright | cc |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 old | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 old | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 old | cop |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 old | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bright | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 old | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bright | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 bright | cop |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 bright | advmod |
| 22 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | parataxis |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bright | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fairer | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fairer | cc |
| 28 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 bright | conj |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 queen | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 queen | det |
| 31 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fairer | obl |
| 32 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 queen | nmod:unmarked |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Snow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | White | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | White | day | bright property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | White not said here | than the queen 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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