Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 4
My good woman," said he to her, "can you not show me the way out of the forest?" "
Who acts: good woman, you · What happens: say, not show · To what, where: head, way, me, forest · 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 (good woman, you), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 woman | nmod:poss |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 woman | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 woman | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 show | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 show | punct |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 show | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 show | nsubj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 show | advmod |
| 15 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | parataxis |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 show | iobj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 show | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 show | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 show | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 show | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | My good woman | head | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not show | can | you | the way | me | the forest | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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