Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 15
In the summer Rose-red took care of the house, and every morning laid a wreath of flowers by her mother’s bed before she awoke, in which was a rose from each tree.
Who acts: Rose, morning, mother, house · What happens: take, lay, awake, be, care · To what, where: care, wreath, rose, tree
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 (Rose, morning, mother, house), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 summer | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 summer | det |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 4 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 red | punct |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Rose | appos |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 care | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 laid | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 laid | cc |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 morning | det |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laid | nsubj |
| 16 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 wreath | det |
| 18 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laid | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 flowers | case |
| 20 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wreath | nmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 bed | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bed | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 mother | case |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laid | obl |
| 26 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 28 awoke | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 awoke | nsubj |
| 28 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 laid | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 rose | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 which | case |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 rose | obl |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 rose | cop |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 rose | det |
| 34 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 awoke | obl |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 tree | case |
| 36 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 tree | det |
| 37 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rose | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Rose | care of the house | summer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||
| 2 | lay | past | every morning | a wreath of flowers | by mother's mother's bed | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme by bed=Destination | |||
| 3 | awake | past | mother | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | a rose | each tree | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | care | the house | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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