Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 90
When she heard this, the queen started with rage; but her envy and curiosity were so great, that she could not help setting out to see the bride.
Who acts: queen, envy · What happens: hear, start, be, not help, set out, see · To what, where: this, bride
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 (queen, envy), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 started | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | nsubj |
| 8 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 rage | case |
| 10 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 great | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 great | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 envy | nmod:poss |
| 14 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 great | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 curiosity | cc |
| 16 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 envy | conj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 great | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 great | advmod |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 help | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 help | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 help | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 help | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 help | advmod |
| 25 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | conj |
| 26 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 help | xcomp |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 setting | compound:prt |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 see | mark |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 setting | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bride | det |
| 31 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 see | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | queen | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | start | past | the queen | with rage | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with rage=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | queen's envy and curiosity | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not help | could | queen | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | set out not said to happen | gerund | queen not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | queen not said here | the bride | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | envy | queen | nom envy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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