Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 3

She had two children who were like the two rose-trees, and one was called Snow-white, and the other Rose-red.

Who acts: widow · What happens: have, call · To what, where: two children, one · 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 (widow), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 children	nummod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 were	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 children	acl:relcl
7	like	like	ADP	_	12 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trees	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 trees	nummod
10	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trees	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 rose	punct
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 called	cc
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 called	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 called	aux:pass
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	parataxis
18	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 white	obl
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Snow	punct
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 called	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 red	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 red	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 red	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 red	nsubj
25	Rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 red	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Rose	punct
27	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	widow	two children					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	call	past · passive		one				white property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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