Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 38

For six long years you must neither speak nor laugh, and during that time you must sew together for us six little shirts of star-flowers, and should there fall a single word from your lips, then all your labor will be in vain."

Who acts: you, labor · What happens: speak, laugh, sew, fall, be · To what, where: six little shirts, single word, lips · 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 (you, labor), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 years	amod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 speak	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 speak	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 speak	aux
7	neither	neither	ADV	_	8 speak	advmod
8	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	10 laugh	cc
10	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 speak	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sew	cc
13	during	during	ADP	_	15 time	case
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sew	obl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 sew	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sew	aux
18	sew	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 speak	conj
19	together	together	ADV	_	18 sew	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 us	case
21	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 sew	obl
22	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 shirts	nummod
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shirts	amod
24	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sew	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 flowers	case
26	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flowers	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 star	punct
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 shirts	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fall	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fall	cc
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 fall	aux
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 fall	advmod
33	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 speak	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 word	det
35	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 word	amod
36	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fall	obj
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 lips	case
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 lips	nmod:poss
39	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 fall	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 vain	punct
41	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 vain	advmod
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 labor	det:predet
43	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 labor	nmod:poss
44	labor	labor	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 vain	nsubj
45	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 vain	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 vain	cop
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 vain	case
48	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fall	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 speak	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	must	you			year	neither property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	infinitive	you not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sew	must	you	six little shirts of star flowers		time	for us; together property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent shirt=Material for we=Beneficiary
4	fall	should	you not said here	a single word	your lips; there			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient word=Extent from lip=Initial_State
5	is	future	your labor			then	vain property	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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