Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 22
Rose-red went and pushed back the bolt, thinking that it was a poor man, but it was not; it was a bear that stretched his broad, black head within the door.
Who acts: Rose, bolt, bear · What happens: go, push back, think, be, not be, stretch · To what, where: bolt, poor man, bear, broad black head · 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 (Rose, bolt, bear), 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 | Rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 red | punct |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Rose | appos |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pushed | cc |
| 6 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 pushed | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bolt | det |
| 9 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pushed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thinking | punct |
| 11 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 pushed | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 man | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 man | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thinking | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 was | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 was | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 was | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 was | advmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 bear | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bear | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 bear | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bear | det |
| 27 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 stretched | nsubj |
| 29 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 bear | acl:relcl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 head | nmod:poss |
| 31 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 head | amod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 broad | punct |
| 33 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 head | amod |
| 34 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stretched | obj |
| 35 | within | within | ADP | _ | 37 door | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 door | det |
| 37 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stretched | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Rose | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | push back | past | Rose not said here | the bolt | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | Rose not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | bolt | a poor man | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not be | past | bolt | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | bolt | a bear | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | stretch | past | a bear | man's broad black head | within the door | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2591/60/22/