The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 3

Rose-red loved to run about the fields and meadows, and to pick flowers and catch butterflies; but Snow-white sat at home with her mother and helped her in the household, or read aloud to her when there was no work to do.

What happens: love, run, pick, catch, help, read · To what, where: Rose, flowers, butterflies, two, household

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: 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	4 loved	nsubj:pass
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Rose	punct
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 loved	amod
4	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 run	mark
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 loved	xcomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 fields	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fields	det
9	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 run	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 meadows	cc
11	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fields	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pick	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pick	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	15 pick	mark
15	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 run	parataxis
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pick	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 catch	cc
18	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pick	conj
19	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 catch	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 sat	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 sat	cc
22	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sat	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 Snow	punct
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sat	amod
25	sat	sat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loved	obl
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 home	case
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sat	nmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 mother	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mother	nmod:poss
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sat	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 helped	cc
32	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loved	conj
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 helped	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 household	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 household	det
36	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 helped	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 read	punct
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 read	cc
39	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 loved	conj
40	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	39 read	advmod
41	to	to	ADP	_	47 work	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 work	nmod:poss
43	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	45 was	advmod
44	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	45 was	expl
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 work	cop
46	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	47 work	det
47	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 read	obl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 do	mark
49	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 work	acl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	love	participle · passive	Rose			Snow white sat at home with two's mother obl	tree rules
2	run not said to happen	to-infinitive				about the fields and meadows	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about field=Trajectory
3	pick	to-infinitive	flowers				vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
4	catch	present	butterflies				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Theme
5	help	past		two	the household		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
6	read	infinitive				aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past				to two's work	tree rules
8	do	to-infinitive					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: «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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