Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 46
As they came nearer they could see it was a dwarf, with a shrivelled-up face and a snow-white beard an ell long.
Who acts: sticks, ground · What happens: come, see, be, shrivell · 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 (sticks, ground), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | advcl |
| 4 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dwarf | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dwarf | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dwarf | det |
| 11 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 see | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 face | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 face | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 face | det |
| 15 | shrivelled | shrivell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 face | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 up | punct |
| 17 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shrivelled | compound |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 beard | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 beard | det |
| 21 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 white | obl |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 snow | punct |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 beard | amod |
| 24 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 face | conj |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 ell | det |
| 26 | ell | ell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 long | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 beard | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | sticks = stick | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | could | sticks = stick | with a shrivelled face and a white beard | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | ground | dwarf property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shrivell | participle | tree rules |
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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