Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 95

In the morning Snowdrop told them all her story; and they pitied her, and said if she would keep all things in order, and cook and wash and knit and spin for them, she might stay where she was, and they would take good care of her.

Who acts: Snowdrop, feet · What happens: tell, pity, say, keep, cook, wash · To what, where: story, feet, SNOWDROP, things, order, good care · 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, feet), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl
4	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 story	det:predet
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 story	nmod:poss
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 pitied	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pitied	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pitied	nsubj
13	pitied	pity	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pitied	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pitied	conj
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 keep	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 keep	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 keep	aux
21	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 things	det
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 keep	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 order	case
25	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 keep	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cook	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cook	cc
28	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 keep	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wash	cc
30	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 keep	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 knit	cc
32	knit	knit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wash	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 spin	cc
34	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wash	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 spin	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 stay	punct
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 stay	nsubj
39	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 stay	aux
40	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	conj
41	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	43 was	advmod
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 was	nsubj
43	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 stay	advcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 take	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 take	cc
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 take	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 take	aux
48	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	parataxis
49	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 care	amod
50	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 take	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 her	case
52	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 care	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Snowdrop	SNOWDROP's story	feet = foot		morning		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic
2	pity	past	feet = foot	SNOWDROP					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	feet = foot not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	keep a condition, not said to happen	would	SNOWDROP	all things		order			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thing=Theme in order=Location
5	cook	infinitive	SNOWDROP not said here						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	wash	infinitive	SNOWDROP not said here						vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	knit	infinitive	SNOWDROP not said here						vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	spin	infinitive	SNOWDROP not said here					for feet = foot	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary
9	stay	might	SNOWDROP						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	be	past	SNOWDROP						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	take	would	feet = foot	good care of SNOWDROP					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
12	care		SNOWDROP						nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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