Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 5

Snow-White was more gentle, and quieter than her sister, who liked better skipping about the fields, seeking flowers, and catching summer birds; while Snow-White stayed at home with her mother, either helping her in her work, or, when that was done, reading aloud.

Who acts: Snow, Snow White, White · What happens: be, like, skip, seek, catch, stay · To what, where: flowers, summer birds, home, White, work, that

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, Snow White, White), 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	6 gentle	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 White	punct
3	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Snow	vocative
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gentle	cop
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 gentle	amod
6	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 quieter	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 quieter	cc
9	quieter	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 gentle	parataxis
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 sister	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 quieter	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 liked	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 liked	nsubj
15	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 quieter	conj
16	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 liked	advmod
17	skipping	skip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 liked	xcomp
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 fields	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fields	det
20	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 skipping	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 seeking	punct
22	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 skipping	conj
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 seeking	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 catching	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 catching	cc
26	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 gentle	conj
27	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 birds	compound
28	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 catching	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 stayed	punct
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 stayed	mark
31	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 White	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Snow	punct
33	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 stayed	nsubj
34	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gentle	parataxis
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 home	case
36	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stayed	obl
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 mother	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 mother	nmod:poss
39	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stayed	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 helping	punct
41	either	either	CCONJ	_	42 helping	cc:preconj
42	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 stayed	advcl
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 helping	obj
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 work	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 work	nmod:poss
46	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 helping	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 done	punct
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	53 done	cc
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 or	punct
50	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	53 done	advmod
51	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 done	nsubj:pass
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 done	aux:pass
53	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 stayed	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 reading	punct
55	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 done	advcl
56	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	55 reading	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gentle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Snow				gentle property	tree rules
2	like	past					well property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	skip not said to happen	gerund					about the fields	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about field=Trajectory
4	seek	gerund		flowers				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
5	catch	gerund	Snow not said here	summer birds				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
6	stay	past	Snow White			home	with White's mother	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
7	help	gerund	Snow White not said here		White	White's work		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
8	do	past · passive		that				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
9	read	gerund					aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	work		White					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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