Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 23
"By rights the throne should be for my youngest son."
What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 rights | case |
| 3 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 son | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 throne | det |
| 5 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rights | nmod |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 son | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 son | cop |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 son | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 son | amod |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | should | for my youngest son; by rights the throne | 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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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