Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 76
Then poor Snowdrop wandered along through the wood in great fear; and the wild beasts roared about her, but none did her any harm.
Who acts: poor Snowdrop, wild beasts, none · What happens: wander, roar, do · To what, where: wood, SNOWDROP
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 (poor Snowdrop, wild beasts, none), 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 | 4 wandered | advmod |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Snowdrop | amod |
| 3 | Snowdrop | Snowdrop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wandered | nsubj |
| 4 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | along | along | ADV | _ | 4 wandered | advmod |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wandered | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 fear | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fear | amod |
| 11 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wood | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 roared | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 roared | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beasts | det |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beasts | amod |
| 16 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 roared | nsubj |
| 17 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandered | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 roared | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 did | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 did | cc |
| 22 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 23 did | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandered | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 did | obj |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 harm | det |
| 26 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 did | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | poor Snowdrop | the wood in great fear | then | along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | roar | past | the wild beasts | about SNOWDROP | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about she=Location | ||||
| 3 | do | past | none | SNOWDROP | 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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