Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 40

In the winter, when the earth is frozen hard, they are obliged to stay below and cannot work their way through; but now, when the sun has thawed and warmed the earth, they break through it, and come out to pry and steal; and what once gets into their hands, and in their caves, does not easily see daylight again.’

Who acts: treasures · What happens: freeze, oblige, stay, not work, thaw, warm · To what, where: earth, treasures, way, sun, hands, daylight

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 (treasures), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 winter	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 winter	det
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frozen	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 winter	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 frozen	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 earth	det
7	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frozen	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 frozen	aux:pass
9	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 frozen	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 obliged	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 obliged	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 obliged	aux:pass
14	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 frozen	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 stay	mark
16	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 obliged	xcomp
17	below	below	ADV	_	16 stay	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 work	cc
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 work	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 work	advmod
21	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 stay	conj
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 way	nmod:poss
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 work	obl
24	through	through	ADV	_	23 way	advmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 thawed	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 thawed	cc
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 thawed	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 thawed	punct
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	33 thawed	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sun	det
31	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thawed	nsubj:pass
32	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 thawed	aux
33	thawed	thaw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 frozen	parataxis
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 warmed	cc
35	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 thawed	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 earth	det
37	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 warmed	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 break	punct
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 break	nsubj
40	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 thawed	parataxis
41	through	through	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 break	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 come	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 come	cc
45	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 break	conj
46	out	out	ADV	_	45 come	advmod
47	to	to	PART	_	48 pry	mark
48	pry	pry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 come	xcomp
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 steal	cc
50	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 pry	conj
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 gets	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 gets	cc
53	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	55 gets	obj
54	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	55 gets	advmod
55	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 frozen	conj
56	into	into	ADP	_	58 hands	case
57	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 hands	nmod:poss
58	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 gets	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 see	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 see	cc
61	in	in	ADP	_	63 caves	case
62	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 caves	nmod:poss
63	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 see	obl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 caves	punct
65	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	68 see	aux
66	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	68 see	advmod
67	easily	easily	ADV	_	68 see	advmod
68	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	55 gets	parataxis
69	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 see	obj
70	again	again	ADV	_	68 see	advmod
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 frozen	punct
72	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 frozen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present · passive		the earth		winter	hard property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	oblige	present · passive		treasures = treasure				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
3	stay	to-infinitive					below property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not work	can		treasures's way				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	thaw	present · perfect · passive		the sun		now		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
6	warm	past		the earth				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent earth=Patient
7	break	present	treasures = treasure		earth			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Location
8	come out	infinitive	treasures = treasure not said here				out property	tree rules
9	pry	to-infinitive	treasures = treasure not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	steal	infinitive	treasures = treasure not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	get	present			treasures's hands		once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
12	not see	present · do-support		daylight	treasures's caves	again	easily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daylight=Stimulus

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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