The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 14

In the evening when the snowflakes fell their mother said: “Snow-white, go and close the shutters,” and they drew round the fire, while the mother put on her spectacles and read aloud from a big book and the two girls listened and sat and span.

Who acts: snowflakes, mother, two girls · What happens: fall, say, go, close, draw, put · To what, where: shutters, spectacles, big book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (snowflakes, mother, two girls), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obl
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 fell	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snowflakes	det
6	snowflakes	snowflake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	advcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 white	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 white	punct
13	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 white	obl
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Snow	punct
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
17	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 white	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 close	cc
19	close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 go	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shutters	det
21	shutters	shutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 close	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 white	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 drew	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drew	nsubj
26	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	conj
27	round	round	ADP	_	29 fire	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fire	det
29	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drew	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 put	punct
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 put	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mother	det
33	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 put	nsubj
34	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 drew	conj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 spectacles	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 spectacles	nmod:poss
37	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 put	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 read	cc
39	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 put	conj
40	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	39 read	advmod
41	from	from	ADP	_	44 book	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 book	det
43	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 book	amod
44	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 read	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 listened	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 girls	det
47	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 girls	nummod
48	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 listened	nsubj
49	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 read	conj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 sat	cc
51	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 listened	conj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 span	cc
53	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 sat	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the snowflakes			evening		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	snowflakes's mother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	go in a quote	infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	close in a quote	infinitive		the shutters				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shutter=Patient
5	draw	past	snowflakes = snowflake				round the fire	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	put	past	the mother		mother's spectacles			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on spectacle=Destination
7	read	present	the mother not said here		a big book		aloud property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from book=Source
8	listen	past	the two girls					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
9	sit	past	the two girls not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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