Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 145

And thus Snowdrop lay for a long, long time, and still only looked as though she was asleep; for she was even now as white as snow, and as red as blood, and as black as ebony.

Who acts: Snowdrop · What happens: lie, look, be

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), 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	_	4 lay	cc
2	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
3	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	10 time	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 looked	cc
13	still	still	ADV	_	15 looked	advmod
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 looked	advmod
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
16	as	as	ADV	_	15 looked	advmod
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 asleep	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asleep	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 asleep	cop
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 looked	advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 white	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 white	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 white	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 white	cop
25	even	even	ADV	_	26 now	advmod
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 white	advmod
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 white	advmod
28	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lay	conj
29	as	as	ADP	_	30 snow	case
30	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 white	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 red	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 red	cc
33	as	as	ADP	_	34 red	case
34	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lay	advcl
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 blood	case
36	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 red	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 black	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 black	cc
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 black	advmod
40	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 red	conj
41	as	as	ADP	_	42 ebony	case
42	ebony	ebony	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 black	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Snowdrop	time	thus property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	past	Snowdrop not said here	still		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	SNOWDROP		asleep property	tree rules
4	is	past	SNOWDROP	now	as snow; white 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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