The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 39

The girl in the meantime was doing as the Dwarfs had bidden her, and was sweeping the snow away from the back door, and what do you think she found there?—heaps of fine ripe strawberries that showed out dark red against the white snow.

Who acts: girl, you, first, fine ripe strawberries · What happens: do, bid, sweep away, think, find, show out · To what, where: heaps, Dwarfs, snow, back door · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (girl, you, first, fine ripe strawberries), 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	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 meantime	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meantime	det
5	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doing	aux
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 bidden	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Dwarfs	det
10	Dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bidden	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bidden	aux
12	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 doing	advcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bidden	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sweeping	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sweeping	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sweeping	aux
17	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 doing	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 snow	det
19	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sweeping	obj
20	away	away	ADV	_	17 sweeping	advmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	24 door	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 door	det
23	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 door	compound
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sweeping	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 think	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 think	cc
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 think	obj
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 think	aux
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 think	nsubj
30	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 doing	conj
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 think	ccomp
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 found	advmod
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct
35	—	-	PUNCT	_	36 heaps	punct
36	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 doing	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 strawberries	case
38	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 strawberries	amod
39	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 strawberries	amod
40	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 heaps	nmod
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 showed	nsubj
42	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 strawberries	acl:relcl
43	out	out	ADP	_	42 showed	compound:prt
44	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 red	amod
45	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 showed	xcomp
46	against	against	ADP	_	49 snow	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 snow	det
48	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 snow	amod
49	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 showed	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	the girl in the meantime	heaps of fine ripe strawberries			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bid	past · perfect · passive		the Dwarfs			tree rules
3	sweep away	past · progressive	the girl in the meantime not said here	the snow	the back door	away property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent snow=Theme from door=Trajectory
4	think speech: other	present · do-support	you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme
5	find	past	first		there		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	show out	past	fine ripe strawberries			against the white snow; red property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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 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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