Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 35

As soon as day dawned the two children let him out, and he trotted across the snow into the forest.

Who acts: bear · What happens: dawn, let out, trot · To what, where: two children, bear, snow

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 (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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 dawned	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 day	case
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dawned	obl
5	dawned	dawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 children	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 children	nummod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dawned	obj
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dawned	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 let	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	9 let	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 trotted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 trotted	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 trotted	nsubj
15	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dawned	conj
16	across	across	ADP	_	18 snow	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 snow	det
18	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 trotted	obl
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 forest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 forest	det
21	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 trotted	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dawned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dawn	past		the two children		day	soon property	tree rules
2	let out	infinitive		bear				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	trot	past	bear		the snow		into the forest	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination

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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