Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 23
Rose-red screamed and sprang back, the lamb bleated, the dove fluttered, and Snow-white hid herself behind her mother’s bed.
Who acts: lamb, white · What happens: scream, spring back, bleat, flutter, hide · To what, where: Rose, lamb, Snow, bed
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 (lamb, white), 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 screamed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rose | punct |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 screamed | amod |
| 4 | screamed | scream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sprang | cc |
| 6 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 screamed | conj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 sprang | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fluttered | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lamb | det |
| 10 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fluttered | nsubj |
| 11 | bleated | bleat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lamb | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fluttered | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dove | det |
| 14 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fluttered | nsubj |
| 15 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 screamed | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hid | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hid | cc |
| 18 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 white | obl |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Snow | punct |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hid | nsubj |
| 21 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fluttered | conj |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 hid | obj |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 27 bed | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bed | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 mother | case |
| 27 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hid | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | participle · passive | Rose | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | spring back | past | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | bleat | participle | the lamb not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | flutter | past | the lamb | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hide | past | white | Snow | Snow's mother's bed | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient behind bed=Location |
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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