Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 7

They often ran about the forest alone and gathered red berries, and no beasts did them any harm, but came close to them trustfully.

Who acts: children, beasts · What happens: run, gather, do, come · To what, where: red berries, children

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, beasts), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gathered	cc
9	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 berries	amod
11	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gathered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 did	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 did	cc
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 beasts	det
15	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 did	obj
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 harm	det
19	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 did	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
23	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 came	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	obl
26	trustfully	trustfully	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	run	past	children = child			about the forest; alone, often property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about forest=Trajectory
2	gather	past	children = child not said here	red berries			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme
3	do	past	no beasts	children = child			tree rules
4	come	past	children = child not said here		children = child	close, trustfully property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location

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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