Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 25
"How is it possible that Dummling, who is not at all wise, could control the affairs of an important kingdom?
Who acts: it, Dummling · What happens: be, not be, control · To what, where: all, affairs · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (it, Dummling), 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 | _ | 5 possible | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 possible | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 possible | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 possible | nsubj |
| 5 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 control | mark |
| 7 | Dummling | Dummling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 control | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wise | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 wise | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wise | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 wise | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 wise | obl |
| 14 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Dummling | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Dummling | punct |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 control | aux |
| 17 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 possible | csubj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 affairs | det |
| 19 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 control | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 kingdom | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 kingdom | det |
| 22 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kingdom | amod |
| 23 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 affairs | nmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | it | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | Dummling | all | wise property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | control in a quote | could | Dummling | the affairs of a important kingdom | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affair=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: «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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