Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 36
Their sister then asked them, with tears, "Can you not be restored again?"
Who acts: sister · What happens: ask, not restore · To what, where: Swans · 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sister | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asked | advmod |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tears | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 tears | case |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 asked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 restored | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 restored | punct |
| 11 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 restored | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 restored | nsubj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 restored | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 restored | aux:pass |
| 15 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 restored | advmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 restored | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Swans's sister | Swans = swan | then | with tears | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | not restore in a quote | can · passive | Swans = swan | again | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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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