Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 127

Then she dressed herself up as a peasant’s wife, and travelled over the hills to the dwarfs’ cottage, and knocked at the door; but Snowdrop put her head out of the window and said, ‘I dare not let anyone in, for the dwarfs have told me not.’

Who acts: SNOWDROP, I · What happens: dress up, travel, knock, put, say, let in · To what, where: SNOWDROP, hills, head, window, anyone, dwarfs · 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 dressed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dressed	nsubj
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 dressed	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 dressed	compound:prt
6	as	as	ADP	_	10 wife	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 peasant	det
8	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wife	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 peasant	case
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 travelled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 travelled	cc
13	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
14	over	over	ADP	_	16 hills	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hills	det
16	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 travelled	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 cottage	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dwarfs	det
19	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cottage	nmod:poss
20	’	's	PART	_	19 dwarfs	case
21	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 travelled	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knocked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 knocked	cc
24	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 door	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 door	det
27	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knocked	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 put	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 put	cc
30	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 put	nsubj
31	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	parataxis
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obj
34	out	out	ADP	_	37 window	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 window	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 window	det
37	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 said	cc
39	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 put	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 let	punct
41	‘	'	PUNCT	_	45 let	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 let	nsubj
43	dare	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 let	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 dare	advmod
45	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 said	ccomp
46	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	45 let	obj
47	in	in	ADP	_	45 let	compound:prt
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 told	punct
49	for	for	SCONJ	_	53 told	mark
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 dwarfs	det
51	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 told	nsubj:pass
52	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 told	aux
53	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 let	parataxis
54	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 told	iobj
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 told	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct
57	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress up	past	SNOWDROP	SNOWDROP			then	as a peasant's wife	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
2	travel	past	SNOWDROP not said here			the hills		to the dwarfs's cottage	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Destination
3	knock	past	SNOWDROP not said here					at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
4	put	past	Snowdrop	SNOWDROP's head		the window			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out window=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past	Snowdrop not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	let in	present	I	anyone					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme
7	not tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		the dwarfs	me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic

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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