Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 121
And it looked so pretty, that she took it up and put it into her hair to try it; but the moment it touched her head, the poison was so powerful that she fell down senseless.
Who acts: comb, SNOWDROP, moment · What happens: look, take up, put, try, touch, be · To what, where: comb, hair, head
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 (comb, SNOWDROP, moment), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 looked | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 pretty | advmod |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 took | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 took | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 took | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 hair | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hair | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 try | mark |
| 19 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 put | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 try | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 powerful | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 powerful | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 moment | det |
| 24 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 powerful | nsubj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 touched | nsubj |
| 26 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 moment | acl:relcl |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 head | nmod:poss |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 touched | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 poison | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 poison | det |
| 31 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 moment | nmod |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 powerful | cop |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 powerful | advmod |
| 34 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 fell | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 fell | nsubj |
| 37 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 powerful | advcl |
| 38 | down | down | ADV | _ | 37 fell | advmod |
| 39 | senseless | senseless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 fell | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | comb | pretty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take up | past | SNOWDROP | comb | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | SNOWDROP not said here | comb | SNOWDROP's hair | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 4 | try | to-infinitive | SNOWDROP not said here | comb | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | touch | past | comb | SNOWDROP's head | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Co-Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the moment the poison | powerful property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | fall down | past | SNOWDROP | down, senseless property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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