Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 49

And the snow fell and spread a beautiful white covering over the grave; but by the time the spring came, and the sun had melted it away again, her father had married another wife.

Who acts: snow, spring · What happens: fall, spread, come, melt away, marry · To what, where: beautiful white covering, grave, sun, father

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, spring), 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	_	4 fell	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snow	det
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spread	cc
6	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 covering	det
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 covering	amod
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 covering	amod
10	covering	covering	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spread	obj
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 grave	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grave	det
13	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 covering	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 time	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 time	det
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 spring	det
20	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 melted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 melted	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sun	det
25	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 melted	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 melted	aux
27	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fell	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 melted	obj
29	away	away	ADV	_	27 melted	advmod
30	again	again	ADV	_	27 melted	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 married	punct
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 married	nsubj:pass
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 married	aux
35	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 melted	conj
36	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	37 wife	det
37	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 married	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the snow					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spread	past	the snow not said here	a beautiful white covering	the grave			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent covering=Theme over grave=Destination
3	come	past	the spring			time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	melt away	past · perfect · passive		the sun		again	away property	tree rules
5	marry	past · perfect · passive		snow's father				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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