Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 18

In the evening, when the snowflakes fell, the mother said: ‘Go, Snow-white, and bolt the door,’ and then they sat round the hearth, and the mother took her spectacles and read aloud out of a large book, and the two girls listened as they sat and spun.

Who acts: snowflakes, mother, two girls, girls · What happens: fall, say, go, bolt, sit, take · To what, where: door, spectacles, large book · 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 (snowflakes, mother, two girls, girls), 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 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 fell	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snowflakes	det
7	snowflakes	snowflake	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 evening	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Go	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Go	punct
15	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 white	punct
17	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 white	obl
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Snow	punct
19	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Go	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bolt	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bolt	cc
22	bolt	bolt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 Go	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bolt	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bolt	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 Go	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sat	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 sat	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sat	nsubj
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
31	round	round	ADP	_	33 hearth	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hearth	det
33	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 took	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 took	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 mother	det
37	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 took	nsubj
38	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	parataxis
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 spectacles	nmod:poss
40	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 took	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 read	cc
42	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 took	conj
43	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	42 read	advmod
44	out	out	ADP	_	48 book	case
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 book	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 book	det
47	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 book	amod
48	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 read	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 listened	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 listened	cc
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 girls	det
52	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 girls	nummod
53	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 listened	nsubj
54	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 took	conj
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	57 sat	mark
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 sat	nsubj
57	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 listened	advcl
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 spun	cc
59	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 sat	conj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the snowflakes					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the mother			evening		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bolt	infinitive		the door				vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent door=Patient
5	sit	past	snowflakes = snowflake			then	round the hearth	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	take	past	the mother	mother's spectacles				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Theme
7	read	present	the mother not said here		a large book		aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	listen	past	the two girls					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
9	sit	past	girls = girl					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	spin	past	girls = girl not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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