Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 113

However, they lifted her up, and when they found what ailed her, they cut the lace; and in a little time she began to breathe, and very soon came to life again.

Who acts: dwarfs, SNOWDROP · What happens: lift up, find, ail, cut, begin, breathe · To what, where: SNOWDROP, lace, life · 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 (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	However	however	ADV	_	4 lifted	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lifted	nsubj
4	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lifted	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 lifted	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 found	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 ailed	nsubj
13	ailed	ail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	ccomp
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ailed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cut	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cut	nsubj
17	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lace	det
19	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cut	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 began	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 began	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 time	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 time	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 time	amod
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 began	obl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 began	nsubj
27	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 breathe	mark
29	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 began	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 came	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 came	cc
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 soon	advmod
33	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 came	advmod
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lifted	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 life	case
36	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 came	obl
37	again	again	ADV	_	34 came	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift up	past	dwarfs = dwarf	SNOWDROP			however property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	find	past	dwarfs = dwarf					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	ail	past		SNOWDROP				vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient she=Experiencer
4	cut	present	dwarfs = dwarf	the lace				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lace=Product
5	begin	past	SNOWDROP			time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	breathe	to-infinitive	SNOWDROP not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	come	past	dwarfs = dwarf not said here		life	again	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location

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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