Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 73
When she heard this she turned pale with rage and envy, and called to one of her servants, and said, ‘Take Snowdrop away into the wide wood, that I may never see her any more.’
Who acts: SNOWDROP, I · What happens: hear, turn, call, say, take away, not see · To what, where: this, one, Snowdrop, wide wood · 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 (SNOWDROP, I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 turned | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 rage | case |
| 9 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 envy | cc |
| 11 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rage | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 called | cc |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 turned | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 called | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 servants | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 servants | nmod:poss |
| 19 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Take | punct |
| 24 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 Take | punct |
| 25 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 26 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Take | obj |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 Take | advmod |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 wood | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wood | det |
| 30 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 wood | amod |
| 31 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Take | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 see | punct |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 see | mark |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 see | nsubj |
| 35 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 see | aux |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 37 see | advmod |
| 37 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 Take | conj |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 see | obj |
| 39 | any | any | ADV | _ | 40 more | advmod |
| 40 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 see | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 Take | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | SNOWDROP | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | SNOWDROP | with rage and envy; pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | SNOWDROP not said here | one of SNOWDROP's servants | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | SNOWDROP not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | take away | infinitive | Snowdrop | the wide wood | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snowdrop=Theme | |||
| 6 | not see | may | I | SNOWDROP | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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