Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 142

And they made a coffin of glass, so that they might still look at her, and wrote upon it in golden letters what her name was, and that she was a king’s daughter.

Who acts: dwarfs, SNOWDROP · What happens: make, look, write, be, name · To what, where: coffin, golden letters, daughter

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, SNOWDROP), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 made	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coffin	det
5	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 glass	case
7	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coffin	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 look	punct
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 look	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	nsubj
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 look	aux
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 look	advmod
14	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 look	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wrote	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wrote	cc
19	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wrote	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 letters	case
23	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 letters	amod
24	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wrote	obl
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 was	obj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 name	nmod:poss
27	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 was	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 letters	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 daughter	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 daughter	cc
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 daughter	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 daughter	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 daughter	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 king	det
35	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 daughter	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 king	case
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	dwarfs = dwarf	a coffin of glass				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset coffin=Product
2	look	might	dwarfs = dwarf			still	at SNOWDROP	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
3	write	past	dwarfs = dwarf not said here		golden letters		upon face	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in letter=Destination
4	is a	past	SNOWDROP	a king's daughter				tree rules
5	name		SNOWDROP					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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