Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 63

And so the little girl really did grow up; her skin was as white as snow, her cheeks as rosy as the blood, and her hair as black as ebony; and she was called Snowdrop.

Who acts: little girl, skin, cheeks · What happens: grow up, be, call · To what, where: girl · 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 (little girl, skin, cheeks), 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	_	8 grow	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	8 grow	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grow	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 grow	advmod
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grow	aux
8	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 grow	compound:prt
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 white	punct
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 skin	nmod:poss
12	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 white	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 white	cop
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 white	advmod
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grow	parataxis
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 snow	case
17	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 white	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rosy	punct
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cheeks	nmod:poss
20	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rosy	nsubj
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 rosy	advmod
22	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 white	conj
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 blood	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 blood	det
25	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rosy	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hair	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hair	cc
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hair	nmod:poss
29	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 white	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 black	case
31	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hair	amod
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 ebony	case
33	ebony	ebony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 black	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 called	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 called	cc
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 called	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 called	aux:pass
38	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 grow	parataxis
39	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 called	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow up	past · do-support	the little girl			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	girl's skin		as snow; white property	tree rules
3	be		girl's cheeks		as the blood	tree rules
4	call	past · passive		girl		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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