Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 33
Snow-white, Rose-red, Will you beat your wooer dead?’
Who acts: Rose · What happens: beat · To what, where: wooer
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), 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 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 white | obl |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Snow | punct |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beat | punct |
| 5 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 beat | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 red | punct |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Rose | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rose | punct |
| 9 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 beat | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 beat | nsubj |
| 11 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 white | parataxis |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wooer | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wooer | wooer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beat | obj |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 beat | xcomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 white | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 white | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | future | Rose | your wooer | dead property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wooer=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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