Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 58

‘Don’t be impatient,’ said Snow-white, ‘I will help you,’ and she pulled her scissors out of her pocket, and cut off the end of the beard.

Who acts: I, Snow · What happens: not be, say, help, pull, cut off · To what, where: you, scissors, pocket, end · 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 (I, Snow), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 impatient	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 impatient	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 impatient	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 impatient	cop
5	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 impatient	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 impatient	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 white	obl
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Snow	punct
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 help	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 help	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 help	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 help	aux
16	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 help	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 help	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 help	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pulled	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pulled	nsubj
22	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 scissors	nmod:poss
24	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pulled	obj
25	out	out	ADP	_	28 pocket	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 pocket	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 pocket	nmod:poss
28	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pulled	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cut	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cut	cc
31	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	parataxis
32	off	off	ADP	_	34 end	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 end	det
34	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cut	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 beard	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 beard	det
37	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 end	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	infinitive · do-support					impatient property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	help	future	I		you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
4	pull	past	Snow	Snow's scissors		Snow's pocket		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme out pocket=Initial_Location
5	cut off	participle		the end of the beard				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector end=Eventuality

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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