Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 63

She clapped her hands as if she had discovered a remedy, took out her scissors, and in a moment set the dwarf free by cutting off the end of his beard.

Who acts: two many · What happens: clap, discover, take out, set, cut off · To what, where: hands, remedy, scissors, dwarf free, end

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 (two many), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 clapped	nsubj
2	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hands	nmod:poss
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 clapped	obj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 discovered	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 discovered	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 discovered	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 discovered	aux
9	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 clapped	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 remedy	det
11	remedy	remedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 discovered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 clapped	parataxis
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 took	compound:prt
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 scissors	nmod:poss
16	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 took	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 set	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 set	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 moment	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 moment	det
21	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 set	obl
22	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 free	det
24	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 free	amod
25	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 set	obj
26	by	by	SCONJ	_	27 cutting	mark
27	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 set	advcl
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 cutting	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 end	det
30	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cutting	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 beard	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 beard	nmod:poss
33	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 end	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 clapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	clap	past	two many = many	two many's hands		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
2	discover	past · perfect	two many = many	a remedy		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remedy=Topic
3	take out	past		two many's scissors		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme
4	set	past		the dwarf free	moment	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient free=Result
5	cut off	gerund		the end of cleft's beard		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector end=Eventuality

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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