The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 199

In the evening the seven Dwarfs came home, and you may think what a fright they got when they saw their dear Snowdrop lying on the floor, as still and motionless as a dead person.

Who acts: seven Dwarfs, you, fright, dwarfs, dear Snowdrop · What happens: come, think, get, see, lie · To what, where: dear Snowdrop, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven Dwarfs, you, fright, dwarfs), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Dwarfs	det
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 Dwarfs	nummod
6	Dwarfs	Dwarf	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 think	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 think	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 think	aux
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 came	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 got	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fright	det
16	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 got	nsubj
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 got	nsubj
18	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 think	ccomp
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 saw	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 got	advcl
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 Snowdrop	nmod:poss
23	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Snowdrop	amod
24	Snowdrop	snowdrop	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obj
25	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 Snowdrop	acl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 floor	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 floor	det
28	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lying	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 motionless	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 motionless	mark
31	still	still	ADV	_	33 motionless	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 motionless	cc
33	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 saw	conj
34	as	as	ADP	_	37 person	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 person	det
36	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 person	amod
37	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 motionless	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the seven Dwarfs			evening	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	may	you					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	get	past	a fright					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
4	see	past	dwarfs = dwarf	dwarfs's dear Snowdrop				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snowdrop=Stimulus
5	lie	gerund	dwarfs's dear Snowdrop not said here		the floor			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location

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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