Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 140

They lifted her up, and combed her hair, and washed her face with wine and water; but all was in vain, for the little girl seemed quite dead.

Who acts: dwarfs, all, little girl · What happens: lift up, comb, wash, be, seem · To what, where: SNOWDROP, hair, face

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, all, little girl), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	nsubj
2	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 lifted	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 combed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 combed	cc
7	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lifted	conj
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hair	nmod:poss
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 combed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 washed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 washed	cc
12	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lifted	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 face	nmod:poss
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 washed	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 wine	case
16	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 washed	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 water	cc
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wine	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 vain	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 vain	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 vain	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 vain	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 vain	case
24	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lifted	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 seemed	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 seemed	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 girl	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 girl	amod
29	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seemed	nsubj
30	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 vain	parataxis
31	quite	quite	ADV	_	32 dead	advmod
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 seemed	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lift up	past	dwarfs = dwarf	SNOWDROP		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	comb	past	dwarfs = dwarf not said here	SNOWDROP's hair		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
3	wash	past	dwarfs = dwarf not said here	SNOWDROP's face	with wine and water	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent face=Patient with wine=Instrument
4	is	past	all		vain property	tree rules
5	seem	past	the little girl		dead property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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