Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 123

But by good luck the dwarfs came in very early that evening; and when they saw Snowdrop lying on the ground, they thought what had happened, and soon found the poisoned comb.

Who acts: dwarfs, Snowdrop · What happens: come in, see, lie, think, happen, find · To what, where: Snowdrop, ground, poisoned comb · 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 luck	case
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 luck	amod
4	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dwarfs	det
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	in	in	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 early	advmod
10	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 came	advmod
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 evening	det
12	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl:unmarked
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 saw	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
18	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
19	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 saw	xcomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lying	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thought	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thought	nsubj
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 happened	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 happened	aux
28	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 thought	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 found	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 found	cc
31	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 found	advmod
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 comb	det
34	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 comb	amod
35	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past	the dwarfs			evening	by good luck; early property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by luck=Location
2	see	past	dwarfs = dwarf	Snowdrop				tree rules
3	lie	gerund	Snowdrop not said here		the ground			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
4	think speech: other	past	dwarfs = dwarf					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	happen	past · perfect						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	find	past	the dwarfs not said here	the poisoned comb			soon property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Topic
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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