Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 107

‘I will let the old lady in; she seems to be a very good sort of body,’ thought Snowdrop, as she ran down and unbolted the door.

Who acts: I, SNOWDROP · What happens: let in, seem, be, think, run down, unbolt · To what, where: old lady, good sort, Snowdrop, door · 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 (I, SNOWDROP), 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	_	4 let	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 let	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 thought	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	obj
8	in	in	ADV	_	4 let	compound:prt
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 seems	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seems	nsubj
11	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 let	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	17 sort	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 sort	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sort	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 good	advmod
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sort	amod
17	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seems	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 body	case
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sort	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 thought	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ran	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 ran	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ran	nsubj
27	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thought	parataxis
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 ran	compound:prt
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 unbolted	cc
30	unbolted	unbolt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 ran	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 door	det
32	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 unbolted	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in	future	I	the old lady		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme
2	seem	present	SNOWDROP			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive	SNOWDROP not said here	a good sort	of body	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past		Snowdrop		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent snowdrop=Attribute clause=Theme
5	run down	past	SNOWDROP			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	unbolt	participle	SNOWDROP not said here	the door		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

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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