Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 21
The mother said: ‘Quick, Rose-red, open the door, it must be a traveller who is seeking shelter.’
Who acts: mother, Quick, door, traveller · What happens: say, open, be, seek · To what, where: door, traveller, shelter · 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, Quick, door, traveller), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Quick | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Quick | punct |
| 6 | Quick | Quick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 open | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Rose | punct |
| 8 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Quick | appos |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 red | punct |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Rose | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Rose | punct |
| 12 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 open | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 traveller | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 traveller | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 traveller | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 traveller | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 traveller | det |
| 20 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 open | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 seeking | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 seeking | aux |
| 23 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 traveller | acl:relcl |
| 24 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seeking | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | open | infinitive | Quick | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | must | door | a traveller | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seek | present · progressive | a traveller | shelter | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=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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