Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 13

And their mother told them that it must have been the angel who watches over good children.

Who acts: mother, darkness, angel · What happens: tell, be, watch over · To what, where: children, angel, good children · Speech: someone speaks here

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, darkness, angel), 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 told	cc
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 angel	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 angel	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 angel	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 angel	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 angel	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 angel	det
12	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	ccomp
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 watches	nsubj
14	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 angel	acl:relcl
15	over	over	ADV	_	16 good	advmod
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 children	amod
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 watches	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	children's mother		children = child	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	is a	must · perfect	darkness	the angel		tree rules
3	watch over	present	the angel	good children		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

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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