Grimm's Fairy Stories, Faithful John, sentence 70
Then the third Crow spoke: "I know still more: even if the bridal shirt be consumed, still the young King will not retain his bride.
Who acts: third Crow, young King · What happens: speak, know, consume, not retain · To what, where: more, bridal shirt, bride · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Faithful John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third Crow, young King), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Crow | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Crow | amod |
| 4 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoke | parataxis |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 know | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 consumed | punct |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 consumed | advmod |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 consumed | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shirt | det |
| 16 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shirt | amod |
| 17 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 consumed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 consumed | aux:pass |
| 19 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 know | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 retain | punct |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 retain | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 King | amod |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 retain | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 retain | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 retain | advmod |
| 27 | retain | retain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 consumed | conj |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 bride | nmod:poss |
| 29 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 retain | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the third Crow | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | the third Crow = crow | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | consume a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive · passive | the bridal shirt | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | |||||
| 4 | not retain in a quote | future | the young King | King's bride | still | 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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