The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 4
The two children loved each other so dearly that they always walked about hand in hand whenever they went out together, and when Snow-white said, “We will never desert each other,” Rose-red answered: “No, not as long as we live”; and the mother added: “Whatever one gets she shall share with the other.”
Who acts: two children, children, Snow white, We, Whatever, mother · What happens: love, walk, go out, say, not desert, answer · To what, where: each, Rose · 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 (two children, children, Snow white, We), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 children | nummod |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 58 added | nsubj |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 children | acl |
| 5 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 loved | obj |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 each | fixed |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 dearly | advmod |
| 8 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 4 loved | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 walked | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 walked | advmod |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 dearly | advcl |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walked | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hand | nmod |
| 17 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 went | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 walked | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 said | advmod |
| 25 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 white | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Snow | punct |
| 27 | white | white | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 said | nsubj |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 walked | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 desert | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 desert | punct |
| 31 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 desert | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 desert | aux |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 desert | advmod |
| 34 | desert | desert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 said | ccomp |
| 35 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 34 desert | obj |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 each | fixed |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 desert | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 desert | punct |
| 39 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 answered | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Rose | punct |
| 41 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 answered | amod |
| 42 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 desert | parataxis |
| 43 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 49 long | punct |
| 44 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 49 long | punct |
| 45 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 49 long | discourse |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 long | punct |
| 47 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 long | advmod |
| 48 | as | as | ADV | _ | 49 long | advmod |
| 49 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 said | advmod |
| 50 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 52 live | mark |
| 51 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 live | nsubj |
| 52 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 long | advcl |
| 53 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 live | punct |
| 54 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 58 added | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 added | cc |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 mother | det |
| 57 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 added | nsubj |
| 58 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 59 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 63 gets | punct |
| 60 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 63 gets | punct |
| 61 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 63 gets | nsubj |
| 62 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 61 Whatever | nsubj |
| 63 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 added | parataxis |
| 64 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 66 share | nsubj |
| 65 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 66 share | aux |
| 66 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 63 gets | xcomp |
| 67 | with | with | ADP | _ | 69 other | case |
| 68 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 69 other | det |
| 69 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 66 share | obl |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 63 gets | punct |
| 71 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 58 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | participle | the two children not said here | each | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | walk | past | children = child | about hand in hand; always property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about hand=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | children = child | out, together, whenever property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Snow white | long property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not desert in a quote | future | We | each | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | answer speech: assert | participle · passive | Rose | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | live in a quote | present | we | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | add speech: assert | past | the two children | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | get in a quote | present | Whatever | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 10 | share in a quote | shall | mother | with the other | tree rules |
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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