Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 34
When it was bed-time, and the others went to bed, the mother said to the bear: ‘You can lie there by the hearth, and then you will be safe from the cold and the bad weather.’
Who acts: wooer, others, mother, You · What happens: be, go, say, lie · To what, where: bed time, bed, cold · 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 (wooer, others, mother, You), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 time | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 time | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 4 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 bed | punct |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 others | det |
| 10 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mother | det |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bear | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bear | det |
| 20 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 lie | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 lie | punct |
| 23 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 lie | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 lie | aux |
| 25 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 lie | advmod |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 hearth | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hearth | det |
| 29 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lie | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 safe | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 safe | cc |
| 32 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 safe | advmod |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 safe | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 safe | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 safe | cop |
| 36 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lie | advcl |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 cold | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 cold | det |
| 39 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 safe | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 weather | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 weather | det |
| 42 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 weather | amod |
| 43 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 cold | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 lie | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | wooer | bed time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the others | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the mother | to the bear | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to bear=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | lie | can | You | there | by the hearth | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hearth=Location | |||
| 5 | is | future | you | the cold and the bad weather | then | safe property | tree rules |
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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