Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 62

Then she gazed thoughtfully upon the red drops that sprinkled the white snow, and said, ‘Would that my little daughter may be as white as that snow, as red as that blood, and as black as this ebony windowframe!’

Who acts: queen, red drops, little daughter · What happens: gaze, sprinkle, say, be · To what, where: white snow · 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 (queen, red drops, little daughter), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 gazed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gazed	nsubj
3	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	_	3 gazed	advmod
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 drops	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 drops	det
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 drops	amod
8	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gazed	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sprinkled	nsubj
10	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 drops	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 snow	det
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 snow	amod
13	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sprinkled	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gazed	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 white	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 white	punct
19	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 white	aux
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 white	mark
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 daughter	nmod:poss
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 daughter	amod
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 white	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 white	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 white	cop
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 white	advmod
27	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 snow	case
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 snow	det
30	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 white	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 red	punct
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 red	case
33	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	conj
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 blood	case
35	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 blood	det
36	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 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	3 gazed	parataxis
41	as	as	ADP	_	44 windowframe	case
42	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 windowframe	det
43	ebony	ebony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 windowframe	amod
44	windowframe	windowframe	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 black	obl
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	40 black	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 gazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	gaze	past	queen		then	upon the red drops; thoughtfully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon drop=Theme
2	sprinkle	past	the red drops	the white snow			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent snow=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	may	my little daughter			as that 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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