The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 223

When they saw Snowdrop lying dead on the ground, they at once suspected that her wicked step-mother had been at work again; so they searched till they found the poisonous comb, and the moment they pulled it out of her head Snowdrop came to herself again, and told them what had happened.

Who acts: dwarfs, Snowdrop, wicked step mother, moment · What happens: see, lie, suspect, be, search, find · To what, where: Snowdrop, ground, work, poisonous comb, comb, head · 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 (dwarfs, Snowdrop, wicked step mother, moment), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 suspected	advcl
4	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
5	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 saw	xcomp
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lying	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lying	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 suspected	nsubj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 suspected	obl
14	suspected	suspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 work	mark
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
17	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mother	amod
18	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mother	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 step	punct
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 work	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 work	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 work	cop
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 work	case
24	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 suspected	advcl
25	again	again	ADV	_	24 work	advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 searched	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 searched	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 searched	nsubj
29	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 suspected	conj
30	till	till	SCONJ	_	32 found	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 found	nsubj
32	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 searched	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 comb	det
34	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 comb	amod
35	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 found	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 pulled	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 pulled	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 moment	det
39	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 pulled	nsubj
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 pulled	nsubj
41	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 suspected	conj
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 pulled	obj
43	out	out	ADP	_	46 head	case
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 head	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 head	nmod:poss
46	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 pulled	obl
47	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 came	nsubj
48	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 head	acl:relcl
49	to	to	ADP	_	50 herself	case
50	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	48 came	obl
51	again	again	ADV	_	48 came	advmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 told	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 told	cc
54	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 suspected	conj
55	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 told	iobj
56	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	58 happened	nsubj
57	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 happened	aux
58	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	54 told	ccomp
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 suspected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	dwarfs = dwarf	Snowdrop					tree rules
2	lie	gerund	Snowdrop not said here			the ground		dead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
3	suspect	past	dwarfs = dwarf						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past · perfect	SNOWDROP's wicked step mother			work	again		tree rules
5	search	past	dwarfs = dwarf						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
6	find	past	dwarfs = dwarf	the poisonous comb					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Topic
7	pull	past	the moment	comb		SNOWDROP's head			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out head=Initial_Location
8	come	past	Snowdrop	SNOWDROP's head not said here	SNOWDROP		again		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme
9	tell speech: assert	past	dwarfs = dwarf not said here		dwarfs = dwarf				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
10	happen	past · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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