Grimm's Fairy Stories, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 7

They were always seen hand in hand; and should Snow-White say to her sister, "We will never separate," the other would reply, "Not while we live," the mother adding, "That which one has, let her always share with the other."

Who acts: White, We, other, mother, one · What happens: see, snow, say, not separate, reply, not live · To what, where: children, hand, sister, White · 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 (White, We, other, mother), 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	4 seen	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux:pass
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 seen	advmod
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 hand	case
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 Snow	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Snow	cc
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 Snow	aux
11	Snow	snow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	parataxis
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 White	punct
13	White	White	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Snow	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 sister	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sister	nmod:poss
17	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 say	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 separate	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 separate	punct
20	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 separate	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 separate	aux
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 separate	advmod
23	separate	separate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 Snow	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 reply	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 reply	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 reply	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 reply	aux
29	reply	reply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 separate	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 live	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 live	punct
32	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 live	advmod
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	35 live	mark
34	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 live	nsubj
35	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 reply	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 adding	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 adding	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 mother	det
39	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 adding	nsubj
40	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 reply	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 has	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	46 has	punct
43	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 one	det
44	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	45 one	det
45	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 has	nsubj
46	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 adding	ccomp
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 let	punct
48	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	46 has	parataxis
49	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 let	obj
50	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	51 share	advmod
51	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 let	advcl
52	with	with	ADP	_	54 other	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 other	det
54	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 share	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 Snow	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Snow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive		children = child		hand	always property	tree rules
2	snow	should						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	say speech: assert	present	White		White's sister			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient
4	not separate in a quote	future	We					vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	reply speech: assert	would	the other					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not live in a quote	present	we					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	add speech: assert	gerund	the mother					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	have in a quote	present	that one					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	let in a quote	infinitive		White				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
10	share in a quote	present					with the other; always property	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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