Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 101
‘Thou, queen, art the fairest in all this land: But over the hills, in the greenwood shade, Where the seven dwarfs their dwelling have made, There Snowdrop is hiding her head; and she Is lovelier far, O queen! than thee.’
Who acts: Snowdrop, Thou · What happens: make, hide, be · To what, where: seven dwarfs, head
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snowdrop, Thou), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thou | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 43 lovelier | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 queen | punct |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Thou | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 art | punct |
| 6 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 queen | appos |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fairest | det |
| 8 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 art | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 land | det:predet |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fairest | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 hills | punct |
| 14 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 hills | cc |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 hills | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hills | det |
| 17 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Thou | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shade | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 shade | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shade | det |
| 21 | greenwood | greenwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shade | compound |
| 22 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hills | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 made | punct |
| 24 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 made | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dwarfs | det |
| 26 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 dwarfs | nummod |
| 27 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 made | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 29 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dwarfs | conj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 made | aux |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 shade | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hiding | punct |
| 33 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 36 hiding | expl |
| 34 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 hiding | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 hiding | aux |
| 36 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Thou | advcl |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 head | nmod:poss |
| 38 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hiding | obj |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 lovelier | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 lovelier | cc |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 lovelier | nsubj |
| 42 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 lovelier | cop |
| 43 | lovelier | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 44 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 lovelier | advmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 queen | punct |
| 46 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 47 queen | discourse |
| 47 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lovelier | obl |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 43 lovelier | punct |
| 49 | than | than | ADP | _ | 50 thee | case |
| 50 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 43 lovelier | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 lovelier | punct |
| 52 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 lovelier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect · passive | the seven dwarfs and dwarfs's dwelling | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | hide | present · progressive | Snowdrop | SNOWDROP's head | there | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | present | Thou | than thee; queen obl; far, lovely 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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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