Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 148

At last, however, they had pity on him, and gave him the coffin; but the moment he lifted it up to carry it home with him, the piece of apple fell from between her lips, and Snowdrop awoke, and said, ‘Where am I?’

Who acts: letters, moment, piece, Snowdrop, I · What happens: have, give, lift up, carry, fall, awake · To what, where: pity, coffin, owl, lips · 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 (letters, moment, piece, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 had	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	advcl
8	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gave	cc
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 coffin	det
16	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 lifted	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 lifted	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 moment	det
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lifted	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lifted	nsubj
22	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lifted	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 lifted	compound:prt
25	to	to	PART	_	26 carry	mark
26	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 lifted	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carry	obj
28	home	home	ADV	_	26 carry	advmod
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carry	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fell	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 piece	det
33	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fell	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 apple	case
35	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 piece	nmod
36	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lifted	parataxis
37	from	from	ADP	_	40 lips	case
38	between	between	ADP	_	40 lips	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 lips	nmod:poss
40	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fell	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 awoke	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 awoke	cc
43	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 awoke	nsubj
44	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 fell	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 said	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 said	cc
47	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lifted	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 Where	punct
49	‘	'	PUNCT	_	50 Where	punct
50	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	47 said	advmod
51	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 Where	cop
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 Where	nsubj
53	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	letters = letter	pity			on owl; however property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
2	give	past	letters = letter not said here	the coffin	owl			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient coffin=Theme
3	lift up	past	the moment	coffin				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	carry	to-infinitive	the moment not said here	coffin			with owl; home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	fall	past	the piece of apple			SNOWDROP's lips		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lip=Initial_Location
6	awake	past	Snowdrop					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	the moment not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	is	present	I				where 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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