Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 112

In the evening the seven dwarfs came home; and I need not say how grieved they were to see their faithful Snowdrop stretched out upon the ground, as if she was quite dead.

Who acts: seven dwarfs, I, dwarfs, SNOWDROP · What happens: come, not say, grieve, see, stretch out, be · To what, where: dwarfs · 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 (seven dwarfs, I, dwarfs, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dwarfs	det
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 dwarfs	nummod
6	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 say	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 say	nsubj
12	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 say	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 say	advmod
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	conj
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 grieved	advmod
16	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 see	advcl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 say	ccomp
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 stretched	nsubj:pass
22	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Snowdrop	amod
23	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 stretched	nsubj:pass
24	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 see	ccomp
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 stretched	compound:prt
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 ground	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ground	det
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stretched	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 dead	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 dead	mark
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 dead	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 dead	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 dead	cop
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 dead	advmod
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stretched	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the seven dwarfs		evening	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not say speech: assert	present	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	grieve	participle	dwarfs = dwarf not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	see	past	dwarfs = dwarf				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	stretch out	participle · passive		dwarfs = dwarf		upon the ground	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	SNOWDROP			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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