Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 123
And the snow spread a beautiful white covering over the grave; but by the time the sun had melted it away again, her father had married another wife.
Who acts: snow · What happens: spread, melt away, marry · To what, where: beautiful white covering, grave, sun, father
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow), 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 spread | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snow | det |
| 3 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | nsubj |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 covering | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 covering | amod |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 covering | amod |
| 8 | covering | covering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 grave | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 grave | det |
| 11 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 covering | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 melted | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 melted | cc |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 melted | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sun | det |
| 18 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 melted | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 melted | aux |
| 20 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spread | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 melted | obj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 melted | advmod |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 melted | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 married | punct |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 married | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 married | aux |
| 28 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spread | advcl |
| 29 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 wife | det |
| 30 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 married | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the snow | a beautiful white covering | the grave | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent covering=Theme over grave=Destination | |||
| 2 | melt away | past · perfect · passive | the sun | again; time | away property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | marry | past · perfect · passive | snow's father | 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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