Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 5

Rose-red liked better to run about in the meadows and fields seeking flowers and catching butterflies; but Snow-white sat at home with her mother, and helped her with her housework, or read to her when there was nothing to do.

Who acts: meadows, nothing · What happens: like, run about, seek, catch, help, read · To what, where: meadows, flowers, butterflies, 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 (meadows, nothing), 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	Rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 red	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Rose	punct
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 red	advcl
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 liked	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 run	mark
7	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 better	advcl
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 run	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 meadows	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meadows	det
11	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 run	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fields	cc
13	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 meadows	conj
14	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 meadows	acl
15	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 seeking	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 catching	cc
17	catching	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 seeking	conj
18	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 catching	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 sat	cc
21	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Snow	punct
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sat	amod
24	sat	sat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 red	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 home	case
26	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	nmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 mother	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mother	nmod:poss
29	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 helped	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 helped	cc
32	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 red	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 helped	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 housework	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 housework	nmod:poss
36	housework	housework	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 helped	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 read	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 read	cc
39	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 helped	parataxis
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 her	case
41	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 read	obl
42	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	44 was	advmod
43	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	44 was	expl
44	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 read	advcl
45	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	44 was	nsubj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 do	mark
47	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 nothing	acl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 red	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	like	participle					good property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	run about	to-infinitive				the meadows and fields	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meadow=Trajectory
3	seek	gerund	the meadows and fields not said here	flowers				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
4	catch	gerund	the meadows and fields not said here	butterflies				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Theme
5	help	past			Snow		with Snow's housework	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary with housework=Theme
6	read	infinitive			Snow			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
7	be	past	nothing			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	do	to-infinitive	nothing not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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