Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 93

But the seventh saw Snowdrop, and called all his brethren to come and see her; and they cried out with wonder and astonishment and brought their lamps to look at her, and said, ‘Good heavens! what a lovely child she is!’

Who acts: seventh, feet, lovely child · What happens: see, call, come, cry out, bring, look · To what, where: Snowdrop, brethren, lamps, Good heavens · 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 (seventh, feet, lovely child), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 saw	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seventh	det
3	seventh	seventh	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 called	cc
8	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 brethren	det:predet
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brethren	nmod:poss
11	brethren	brethren	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 called	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 see	cc
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cried	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cried	nsubj
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 cried	compound:prt
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 wonder	case
23	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cried	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 astonishment	cc
25	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wonder	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 brought	cc
27	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 cried	conj
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 lamps	nmod:poss
29	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 brought	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 look	mark
31	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 brought	advcl
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 look	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 said	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 said	cc
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 heavens	punct
38	‘	'	PUNCT	_	40 heavens	punct
39	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 heavens	amod
40	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 said	obj
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	40 heavens	punct
42	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	36 said	ccomp
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 child	det
44	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 child	amod
45	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 what	nsubj
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 is	nsubj
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 what	cop
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the seventh	Snowdrop		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snowdrop=Stimulus
2	call	past	the seventh not said here	seventh's brethren		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brethren=Recipient
3	come	to-infinitive	the seventh not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	infinitive	the seventh not said here	SNOWDROP		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	cry out speech: express	past	feet = foot		with wonder and astonishment	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with wonder=Theme
6	bring	past	feet = foot not said here	feet's lamps		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme
7	look	to-infinitive	feet = foot not said here		at SNOWDROP	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
8	say speech: assert	past	the seventh not said here	Good heavens		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent heaven=Topic
9	is a	present	a lovely child			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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