Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 36

"The most beautiful woman is not always at hand," said the toad, "however, you shall have her."

Who acts: beautiful woman, toad, you · What happens: not be, say, have · To what, where: hand, woman · 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 (beautiful woman, toad, you), 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	_	10 hand	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 beautiful	advmod
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hand	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hand	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 hand	advmod
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 hand	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 hand	case
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hand	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 hand	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 toad	det
15	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
18	however	however	ADV	_	22 have	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 however	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 have	aux
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 have	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	the beautiful woman		hand	always property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the toad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	shall	you	woman		however property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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