Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 69
There was nothing to do but to bring out the scissors and cut the beard, whereby a small part of it was lost.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: be, do, bring out, cut, lose · To what, where: scissors, beard, small part
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 (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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nothing | acl |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 bring | cc |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bring | mark |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 bring | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 scissors | det |
| 11 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bring | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cut | cc |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beard | det |
| 15 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cut | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lost | punct |
| 17 | whereby | whereby | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 lost | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 part | det |
| 19 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 part | amod |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 part | nmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lost | aux:pass |
| 24 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 beard | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bring out | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | the scissors | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent scissors=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cut | present | nothing not said here | the beard | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beard=Product | ||||
| 5 | lose | past · passive | a small part of beard | whereby property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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