Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 45
When they came nearer they saw a dwarf with an old withered face and a snow-white beard a yard long.
Who acts: children · What happens: come, see, wither · To what, where: dwarf
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 (children), 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 | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | advcl |
| 4 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dwarf | det |
| 8 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 face | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 face | amod |
| 12 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 face | amod |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dwarf | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 beard | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 beard | det |
| 16 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 white | obl |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 snow | punct |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 beard | amod |
| 19 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 face | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 yard | det |
| 21 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 long | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 beard | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | children = child | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | children = child | a dwarf | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dwarf=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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