Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 125

Meantime the queen went home to her glass, and shook with rage when she read the very same answer as before; and she said, ‘Snowdrop shall die, if it cost me my life.’

Who acts: queen, Snowdrop, answer · What happens: go, shake, read, say, die, cost · To what, where: Meantime, glass, same answer, life, me · 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 (queen, Snowdrop, answer), 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	Meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl:unmarked
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 queen	det
3	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 glass	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 glass	nmod:poss
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shook	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shook	cc
11	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 rage	case
13	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shook	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 read	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 read	nsubj
16	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shook	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 same	advmod
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 read	obj
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 before	case
22	before	before	ADV	_	16 read	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 die	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 die	punct
29	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 die	nsubj
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 die	aux
31	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cost	punct
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 cost	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 cost	nsubj
35	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 die	conj
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 cost	iobj
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 life	nmod:poss
38	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cost	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 die	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the queen	Meantime		queen's glass	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to glass=Initial_Location
2	shake	past	the queen not said here				with rage	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with rage=Co-Patient
3	read	past	queen	the same answer				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus as before=Attribute
4	say speech: assert	past	queen					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	die	shall	Snowdrop					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	cost a condition, not said to happen	past	answer	my life	me			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary life=Value

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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