Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 36

The offer was accepted, but when morning came, as the day broke in the east, the two children let him out, and over the snow he went back into the wood.

Who acts: morning, day, two children, widow · What happens: accept, come, break, let out, go back · To what, where: offer, east, widow, snow

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 (morning, day, two children, widow), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 offer	det
2	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accepted	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 accepted	aux:pass
4	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 accepted	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 broke	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 broke	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 broke	nsubj
14	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 east	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 east	det
17	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 broke	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 children	det
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 children	nummod
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 let	nsubj
22	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 broke	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	out	out	ADP	_	22 let	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 went	cc
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 snow	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 snow	det
29	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 went	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 went	nsubj
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 went	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 wood	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wood	det
35	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 went	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 accepted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	accept	past · passive		the offer			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	come	past	morning				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break	past	the day		the east		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in east=Location
4	let out	infinitive	the two children	widow			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	go back	past	widow		the snow	into the wood	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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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