Grimm's Fairy Stories, Little Snow White, sentence 91
And when she arrived, and saw that it was no other than Snow-White, whom she thought had been dead a long while, she choked with passion, and fell ill and died; but Snow-White and the prince lived and reigned happily over that land, many, many years.
Who acts: queen, envy, Snow White · What happens: arrive, see, be, think, choke, fall · To what, where: land · 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 (queen, envy, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 other | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 other | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 other | cop |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 other | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 saw | obl |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 White | case |
| 14 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 White | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Snow | punct |
| 16 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 other | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 whom | punct |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 saw | obl |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thought | nsubj |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 whom | acl:relcl |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dead | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 dead | cop |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 while | det |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 while | amod |
| 26 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dead | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 choked | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 choked | nsubj |
| 29 | choked | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | parataxis |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 passion | case |
| 31 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 choked | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fell | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 fell | cc |
| 34 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 choked | conj |
| 35 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fell | xcomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 died | cc |
| 37 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 fell | conj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 lived | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 lived | cc |
| 40 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 White | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 Snow | punct |
| 42 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 lived | nsubj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 prince | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 prince | det |
| 45 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 White | conj |
| 46 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 reigned | cc |
| 48 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 lived | conj |
| 49 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 48 reigned | advmod |
| 50 | over | over | ADP | _ | 52 land | case |
| 51 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 52 land | det |
| 52 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 reigned | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 years | punct |
| 54 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 years | amod |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 many | punct |
| 56 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 years | amod |
| 57 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 lived | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | envy | than Snow White; other property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | queen | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | while | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | choke | past | queen | with passion | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with passion=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fall | past | queen not said here | ill property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | die | past | queen not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 9 | live | past | Snow White and the prince | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 10 | reign | past | Snow White and the prince not said here | that land | happily property | 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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