Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 110
Meanwhile the maidens were running away, making off for home as well as they could; but all of a sudden they were stopped by a well-known voice that called out, "Snow-White, Rose-Red, stay!
Who acts: maidens, known voice · What happens: run away, make off, stop, know, call out, stay · To what, where: all, sudden, known voice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (maidens, known voice), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 running | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maidens | det |
| 3 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 running | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 running | aux |
| 5 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 running | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 making | punct |
| 8 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 running | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 making | compound:prt |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 making | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 well | advmod |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 making | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 could | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 could | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 well | advcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 all | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 all | cc |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 running | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 a | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 all | conj |
| 22 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stopped | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 stopped | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stopped | aux:pass |
| 25 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 a | parataxis |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 voice | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 voice | det |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 known | advmod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 well | punct |
| 30 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 voice | amod |
| 31 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stopped | obl |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 called | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 voice | acl |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 called | compound:prt |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 White | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 White | punct |
| 37 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 White | nsubj |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 White | punct |
| 39 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 stopped | parataxis |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Rose | punct |
| 41 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 White | conj |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 Red | punct |
| 43 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Rose | flat |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 stay | punct |
| 45 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 stopped | conj |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 running | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | past · progressive | the maidens | all | away, meanwhile property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | make off | gerund | the maidens not said here | for home; well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for home=Asset | ||||
| 3 | stop | past · passive | a known voice | sudden | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | call out speech: express | participle · passive | a known voice | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | stay in a quote | infinitive | a known voice not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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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