Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 119
But Snowdrop said, ‘I dare not let anyone in.’
Who acts: Snowdrop, I · What happens: say, let in · To what, where: anyone · 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 (Snowdrop, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | nsubj |
| 7 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 dare | advmod |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 let | compound:prt |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Snowdrop | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in | present | I | anyone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme |
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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