The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 21

‘Now Heaven help us,’ replied her stepdaughter; ‘strawberries don’t grow in winter; the earth is all frozen and the snow has covered up everything; and why send me in a paper dress? it is so cold outside that one’s very breath freezes; the wind will whistle through my dress, and the brambles tear it from my body.’

Who acts: Heaven, ’, strawberries, snow, breath, wind · What happens: help, reply, not grow, freeze, cover up, send · To what, where: us, stepdaughter, earth, snow, me, paper dress

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, ’, strawberries, snow), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 Heaven	advmod
3	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 help	nsubj
4	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct
7	’	'	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 replied	nsubj
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 help	parataxis
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stepdaughter	nmod:poss
10	stepdaughter	stepdaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 grow	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 grow	punct
13	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 grow	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 grow	aux
15	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 grow	advmod
16	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 winter	case
18	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grow	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 frozen	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 earth	det
21	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 frozen	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 frozen	aux:pass
23	all	all	ADV	_	24 frozen	advmod
24	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 help	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 covered	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 snow	det
27	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 covered	nsubj:pass
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 covered	aux
29	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 frozen	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 covered	compound:prt
31	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	29 covered	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 send	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 send	cc
34	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	35 send	advmod
35	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	advcl
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 send	iobj
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 dress	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 dress	det
39	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 dress	compound
40	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 send	obl
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 cold	nsubj
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 cold	cop
44	so	so	ADV	_	45 cold	advmod
45	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 help	parataxis
46	outside	outside	ADP	_	49 ’s	mark
47	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 one	det
48	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 ’s	nsubj
49	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 cold	advcl
50	very	very	ADV	_	51 breath	advmod
51	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 freezes	nsubj
52	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 ’s	advcl
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 whistle	punct
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 wind	det
55	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 whistle	nsubj
56	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 whistle	aux
57	whistle	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	conj
58	through	through	ADP	_	60 dress	case
59	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 dress	nmod:poss
60	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 whistle	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 tear	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 tear	cc
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 brambles	det
64	brambles	bramble	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 tear	nsubj
65	tear	tear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 whistle	conj
66	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 tear	obj
67	from	from	ADP	_	69 body	case
68	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 body	nmod:poss
69	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 tear	obl
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct
71	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Heaven		us				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary
2	reply speech: assert	past	’	Heaven's stepdaughter					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stepdaughter=Topic
3	not grow	present · do-support	strawberries				winter		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	freeze	present · passive		the earth				all property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
5	cover up	present · perfect · passive		the snow					tree rules
6	send	infinitive	Heaven not said here		me	a paper dress			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in dress=Destination
7	is	present	snow					cold property	tree rules
8	freeze	present	breath						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	whistle	future	the wind			my dress			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through dress=Location
10	tear	present	the brambles	dress				from my body	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient from body=Co-Patient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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