Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 134

Then Snowdrop was much tempted to taste, for the apple looked so very nice; and when she saw the old woman eat, she could wait no longer.

Who acts: apple, SNOWDROP, old woman, woman · What happens: tempt, taste, look, see, eat, wait · To what, where: Snowdrop · 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 (apple, SNOWDROP, old woman, woman), 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	5 tempted	advmod
2	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tempted	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tempted	aux:pass
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 tempted	advmod
5	tempted	tempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 taste	mark
7	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tempted	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 looked	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 apple	det
11	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taste	advcl
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 nice	advmod
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 nice	advmod
15	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looked	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 saw	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tempted	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 woman	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 woman	amod
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 eat	nsubj
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 saw	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wait	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wait	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 wait	aux
28	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 eat	conj
29	no	no	ADV	_	30 longer	advmod
30	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 wait	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tempted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tempt	past · passive		Snowdrop	then		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	taste	to-infinitive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	look	past	the apple			nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	see	past	SNOWDROP				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	eat	infinitive	the old woman				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wait	could	woman			long property	vn exist-47.1 «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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