Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 105

Snowdrop looked out at the window, and said, ‘Good day, good woman! what have you to sell?’

Who acts: Snowdrop, you · What happens: look out, say, sell · To what, where: window · Speech: someone speaks here

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, you), 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	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 looked	compound:prt
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 window	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 window	det
6	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
12	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 woman	punct
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	appos
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 woman	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 sell	obj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sell	aux
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 sell	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 sell	mark
22	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 sell	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 sell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	look out	past	Snowdrop	the window	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Snowdrop not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sell	present	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

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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