The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 38
Snow-white was quite sad over their friend’s departure, and when she unbarred the door for him, the bear, stepping out, caught a piece of his fur in the door-knocker, and Snow-white thought she caught sight of glittering gold beneath it, but she couldn’t be certain of it; and the bear ran hastily away, and soon disappeared behind the trees.
Who acts: Snow white, sun, Snow white thought, sight, bear, friend · What happens: be, unbar, step out, catch, glitter, not be · To what, where: departure, door, piece, sight, gold, trees
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 (Snow white, sun, Snow white thought, sight), 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 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 white | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Snow | punct |
| 3 | white | white | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sad | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sad | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 sad | advmod |
| 6 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 departure | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friend | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 departure | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 friend | case |
| 11 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sad | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 caught | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 caught | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 unbarred | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 unbarred | nsubj |
| 16 | unbarred | unbar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 caught | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 unbarred | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 unbarred | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bear | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bear | det |
| 23 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 unbarred | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stepping | punct |
| 25 | stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 unbarred | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 stepping | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 caught | punct |
| 28 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sad | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 piece | det |
| 30 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 caught | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 fur | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 fur | nmod:poss |
| 33 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 piece | nmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 knocker | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 knocker | det |
| 36 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 knocker | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 door | punct |
| 38 | knocker | knocker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 caught | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 caught | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 caught | cc |
| 41 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 thought | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 Snow | punct |
| 43 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 thought | amod |
| 44 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 caught | nsubj |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 caught | nsubj |
| 46 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 caught | parataxis |
| 47 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 caught | obj |
| 48 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 49 glittering | mark |
| 49 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 47 sight | acl |
| 50 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 glittering | obj |
| 51 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 52 it | case |
| 52 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 glittering | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 certain | punct |
| 54 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 59 certain | cc |
| 55 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 59 certain | nsubj |
| 56 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 59 certain | aux |
| 57 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 59 certain | advmod |
| 58 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 59 certain | cop |
| 59 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 caught | conj |
| 60 | of | of | ADP | _ | 61 it | case |
| 61 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 59 certain | obl |
| 62 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 66 ran | punct |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 66 ran | cc |
| 64 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 bear | det |
| 65 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 ran | nsubj |
| 66 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sad | parataxis |
| 67 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 68 away | advmod |
| 68 | away | away | ADV | _ | 66 ran | advmod |
| 69 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 72 disappeared | punct |
| 70 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 72 disappeared | cc |
| 71 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 72 disappeared | advmod |
| 72 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 66 ran | conj |
| 73 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 75 trees | case |
| 74 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 75 trees | det |
| 75 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 72 disappeared | obl |
| 76 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Snow white | dwarfs's friend's departure | sad property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | unbar | past | sun | the door | for white; the bear obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | step out | gerund | sun not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | catch | past | a piece of white's fur | in the door knocker | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 5 | catch | past | Snow white thought | sight | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 6 | glitter | gerund | sight not said here | gold | beneath thought | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | |||
| 7 | not is | could | sun | of thought; certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | run | past | the bear | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | disappear | past | the bear not said here | the trees | soon property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 10 | depart | dwarfs's friend | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=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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