Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 139

When evening came, and the dwarfs had gone home, they found Snowdrop lying on the ground: no breath came from her lips, and they were afraid that she was quite dead.

Who acts: evening, dwarfs, Snowdrop, breath · What happens: come, go, find, lie, be · To what, where: Snowdrop, ground, lips

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 (evening, dwarfs, Snowdrop, breath), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 found	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gone	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dwarfs	det
7	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gone	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 came	conj
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 gone	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 found	obj
15	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 Snowdrop	acl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lying	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 breath	det
21	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 found	parataxis
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 lips	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 lips	nmod:poss
25	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 came	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 afraid	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 afraid	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 afraid	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 afraid	cop
30	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 came	conj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 dead	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 dead	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 dead	cop
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 dead	advmod
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 afraid	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	evening				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past · perfect	the dwarfs			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	dwarfs = dwarf	Snowdrop			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snowdrop=Topic
4	lie	gerund	Snowdrop not said here		the ground		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
5	come	past	no breath		breath's lips		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lip=Initial_Location
6	is	past	dwarfs = dwarf			afraid property	tree rules
7	is	past	breath			dead property	tree rules

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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