Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 10

Once when they had spent the night in the wood and the dawn had roused them, they saw a beautiful child in a shining white dress sitting near their bed.

Who acts: children, shining white dress · What happens: spend, rouse, see, shine, sit · To what, where: wood, dawn, beautiful child, shining white dress, bed

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, shining white dress), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 spent	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 spent	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spent	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spent	aux
5	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spent	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spent	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 roused	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dawn	det
13	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 roused	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 roused	aux
15	roused	rouse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 spent	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 roused	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 roused	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 child	det
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 child	amod
22	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saw	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	27 dress	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dress	det
25	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 dress	amod
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dress	amod
27	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 child	nmod
28	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 dress	acl
29	near	near	ADP	_	31 bed	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 bed	nmod:poss
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sitting	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past · perfect	children = child		the wood	night	once property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	rouse	past · perfect · passive		the dawn				tree rules
3	see	past	children = child	a beautiful child	a shining white dress			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
4	shine	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sit	gerund	a shining white dress not said here		children's bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near bed=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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