Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 11

Once, when they had spent the night in the wood, and the bright sunrise awoke them, they saw a beautiful child, in a snow-white robe, shining like diamonds, sitting close to the spot where they had reposed.

Who acts: children, bright sunrise · What happens: spend, awake, see, shine, sit, repose · To what, where: wood, children, beautiful child, white robe

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, bright sunrise), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 spent	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 spent	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spent	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spent	aux
6	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spent	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spent	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 awoke	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 awoke	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sunrise	det
15	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sunrise	amod
16	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 awoke	nsubj
17	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spent	parataxis
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 awoke	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 awoke	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 child	det
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 child	amod
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 robe	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	31 robe	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 robe	det
28	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 white	obl
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 snow	punct
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 robe	amod
31	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 shining	punct
33	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 saw	conj
34	like	like	ADP	_	35 diamonds	case
35	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 shining	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sitting	punct
37	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 shining	conj
38	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 sitting	advmod
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 spot	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 spot	det
41	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 close	obl
42	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 reposed	advmod
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 reposed	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 reposed	aux
45	reposed	repose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 spot	acl:relcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past · perfect	children = child		the wood	night	once property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	awake	past	the bright sunrise	children = child				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
3	see	past	children = child	a beautiful child	a white robe			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
4	shine	gerund	children = child not said here				like diamonds	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sit	gerund	children = child not said here				close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	repose	past · perfect	children = child					vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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