Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 101

She took the two rose-trees with her, and they stood before her window, and every year bore the most beautiful roses, white and red.

Who acts: mother, trees, year · What happens: take, stand, bear · To what, where: two rose trees, window, beautiful roses

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 (mother, trees, year), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 trees	nummod
5	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trees	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 rose	punct
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stood	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
14	before	before	ADP	_	16 window	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 window	nmod:poss
16	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bore	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bore	cc
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 year	det
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bore	nsubj
21	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 roses	det
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 beautiful	advmod
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 roses	amod
25	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bore	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 white	punct
27	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bore	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 red	cc
29	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 white	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	mother	the two rose trees		with Snow	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
2	stand	past	trees = tree		mother's window		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before window=Location
3	bear	past	every year	the beautiful roses			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Patient

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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