Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 15

Snow-White and Rose-Red kept their mother's cottage so clean that it gave pleasure only to look in.

Who acts: Snow · What happens: keep, give, look in · To what, where: cottage, pleasure

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 (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	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 White	punct
3	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Snow	appos
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Rose	cc
5	Rose	Rose	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 White	conj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Red	punct
7	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Rose	flat
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cottage	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 mother	case
12	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 clean	advmod
14	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kept	xcomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 gave	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 clean	advcl
18	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
19	only	only	ADV	_	21 look	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 look	mark
21	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 gave	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	21 look	compound:prt
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Snow	children's mother's cottage	clean property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme
2	give	past	Snow	pleasure		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme
3	look in	to-infinitive	Snow not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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