Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 117
Then the blood ran cold in her heart with spite and malice, to see that Snowdrop still lived; and she dressed herself up again, but in quite another dress from the one she wore before, and took with her a poisoned comb.
Who acts: blood, Snowdrop · What happens: run, see, live, dress up, wear, take · To what, where: heart, SNOWDROP, one, poisoned comb
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 (blood, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ran | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 blood | det |
| 3 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ran | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 spite | case |
| 10 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 malice | cc |
| 12 | malice | malice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spite | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ran | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 lived | mark |
| 17 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | nsubj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 lived | advmod |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | advcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 dressed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dressed | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dressed | nsubj |
| 23 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 dressed | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 dressed | compound:prt |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 dressed | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 dress | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 dress | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 dress | case |
| 30 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 32 dress | advmod |
| 31 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 dress | det |
| 32 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | parataxis |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 one | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 one | det |
| 35 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dress | nmod |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 wore | nsubj |
| 37 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 one | acl:relcl |
| 38 | before | before | ADV | _ | 37 wore | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 took | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 took | cc |
| 41 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 dress | conj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 her | case |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 took | obl |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 comb | det |
| 45 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 comb | amod |
| 46 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 took | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the blood | queen's heart | then | with spite and malice; cold property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the blood not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | live | past | Snowdrop | still | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dress up | past | SNOWDROP | SNOWDROP | again | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 5 | wear | past | SNOWDROP | the one not said here | before property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source | |||
| 6 | take | past | the blood not said here | a poisoned comb | with SNOWDROP | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Theme | |||
| 7 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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