Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 28
They came, as she bade them, and presently the lamb and the dove drew near also without fear.
Who acts: roses, bear, dove · What happens: come, bade, draw · To what, where: lamb, roses
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 (roses, bear, dove), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bade | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 bade | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bade | nsubj |
| 6 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bade | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lamb | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lamb | cc |
| 10 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 12 lamb | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lamb | det |
| 12 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drew | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dove | det |
| 15 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drew | nsubj |
| 16 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 17 | near | near | ADV | _ | 16 drew | advmod |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 16 drew | advmod |
| 19 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 fear | case |
| 20 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drew | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | roses = rose | the lamb | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bade | past | bear | roses = rose | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | the dove | without fear; near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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