Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 34
"Can you not protect me, then?" inquired the sister.
Who acts: sister · What happens: not protect, inquire · To what, where: me, sister · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sister), 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 protect | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 protect | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 protect | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 protect | advmod |
| 5 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 inquired | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 protect | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 protect | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 protect | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 protect | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 protect | punct |
| 11 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sister | det |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 inquired | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not protect in a quote | can | the sister = sister | me | then | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the sister | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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