Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 18

In the evening, when snow was falling, her mother would bid her bolt the door, and then, sitting by the hearth, the good widow would read aloud to them from a big book while the little girls were spinning.

Who acts: snow, mother, good widow, little girls · What happens: fall, bid, bolt, sit, read, spin · To what, where: White, door, roses, big book

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, mother, good widow, little girls), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 falling	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 falling	mark
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 falling	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 falling	aux
8	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bid	punct
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bid	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 bid	aux
13	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 falling	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bid	obj
15	bolt	bolt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 bid	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bolt	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sitting	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sitting	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 sitting	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sitting	punct
22	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 falling	conj
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 hearth	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hearth	det
25	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sitting	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 read	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 widow	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 widow	amod
29	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 read	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 read	aux
31	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sitting	conj
32	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	31 read	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 read	obl
35	from	from	ADP	_	38 book	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 book	det
37	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 book	amod
38	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 read	obl
39	while	while	SCONJ	_	44 spinning	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 girls	det
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 girls	amod
42	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 spinning	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 spinning	aux
44	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 read	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 falling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · progressive	snow				evening		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bid	would	mother's mother	White					tree rules
3	bolt	infinitive	mother's mother not said here	the door					vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent door=Patient
4	sit	gerund	snow not said here				then	by the hearth	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hearth=Location
5	read	would	the good widow		roses = rose	a big book		aloud property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from book=Source
6	spin	past · progressive	the little girls						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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