Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 6
When he had carefully locked the door, he lifted up the cover, and saw a white snake lying on the dish.
Who acts: king, white snake · What happens: lock, lift up, see, lie · To what, where: king, cover, white snake, dish
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, white snake), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 locked | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 locked | aux |
| 4 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 5 locked | advmod |
| 5 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lifted | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 locked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 locked | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lifted | nsubj |
| 10 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 lifted | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cover | det |
| 13 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lifted | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saw | cc |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lifted | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 snake | det |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 snake | amod |
| 19 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 20 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 snake | acl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 dish | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dish | det |
| 23 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lying | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | past · perfect · passive | king | carefully property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient door=Result | ||||
| 2 | lift up | past | king | the cover | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | king not said here | a white snake | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | a white snake not said here | the dish | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on dish=Location |
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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