Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 122

You would fetch your dearest, but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest; the cat has got it, and will scratch out your eyes as well.

Who acts: You, beautiful bird, cat · What happens: fetch, sit, sing, get, scratch out · To what, where: dearest, nest, bird, eyes

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, beautiful bird, cat), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 fetch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fetch	aux
3	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dearest	nmod:poss
5	dearest	dearest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fetch	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sits	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 sits	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sits	nsubj
11	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fetch	conj
12	no	no	ADV	_	13 longer	advmod
13	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 singing	advmod
14	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 sits	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 nest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 nest	det
17	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 singing	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 got	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cat	det
20	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 got	nsubj
21	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 got	aux
22	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 sits	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 got	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 scratch	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 scratch	cc
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 scratch	aux
27	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fetch	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 scratch	compound:prt
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 eyes	nmod:poss
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 scratch	obj
31	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	27 scratch	advmod
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 as	fixed
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fetch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fetch	would	You	your dearest			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dearest=Theme
2	sit	present	the beautiful bird				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express	gerund	the beautiful bird not said here		the nest	long property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location
4	get	present · perfect	the cat	bird			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	scratch out	future	You not said here	your eyes			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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