Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 110
Snowdrop did not dream of any mischief; so she stood before the old woman; but she set to work so nimbly, and pulled the lace so tight, that Snowdrop’s breath was stopped, and she fell down as if she were dead.
Who acts: Snowdrop, breath · What happens: not dream, stand, set, work, pull, stop · To what, where: lace, breath
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, breath), 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 | 4 dream | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dream | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 dream | advmod |
| 4 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mischief | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 mischief | det |
| 7 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dream | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 stood | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dream | parataxis |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 woman | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 set | nsubj |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dream | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 work | mark |
| 21 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 set | xcomp |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 nimbly | advmod |
| 23 | nimbly | nimbly | ADV | _ | 21 work | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pulled | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pulled | cc |
| 26 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 set | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lace | det |
| 28 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pulled | obj |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 tight | advmod |
| 30 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pulled | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 stopped | punct |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 stopped | mark |
| 33 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 breath | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 Snowdrop | case |
| 35 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 stopped | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 stopped | aux:pass |
| 37 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 pulled | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 fell | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 fell | cc |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 fell | nsubj |
| 41 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 set | conj |
| 42 | down | down | ADV | _ | 41 fell | advmod |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 47 dead | mark |
| 44 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 47 dead | mark |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 dead | nsubj |
| 46 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 dead | cop |
| 47 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 fell | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dream | past · do-support | Snowdrop | of any mischief | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | SNOWDROP | before the old woman | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before woman=Location | ||||
| 3 | set | past | SNOWDROP | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | work | to-infinitive | SNOWDROP not said here | nimbly property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | pull | past | the lace | tight property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lace=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stop | past · passive | Snowdrop's breath | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | fall down | past | breath | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is | past | breath | dead 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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