Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 37
When spring had come and all outside was green, the bear said one morning to Snow-white: ‘Now I must go away, and cannot come back for the whole summer.’
Who acts: spring, all, bear, I · What happens: come, be, say, go away, not come back · 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 (spring, all, bear, I), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 come | advmod |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 green | cc |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 green | nsubj |
| 7 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 6 all | advmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 green | cop |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 come | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bear | det |
| 12 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 green | parataxis |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 morning | nummod |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 white | case |
| 17 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 white | obl |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Snow | punct |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 22 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 go | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 go | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | aux |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 go | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 come | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 come | cc |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 come | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 come | advmod |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 go | conj |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 come | advmod |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 summer | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 summer | det |
| 35 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 summer | amod |
| 36 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 come | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | spring | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | all | green property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the bear | morning | to white | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to white=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | go away | must | I | now | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | not come back | can | I not said here | summer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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