Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 5
Oh, yes, my lord King," she replied; "I can do that very well, but upon one condition, which if you do not fulfil, you will never again get out of the wood, but will die of hunger."
Who acts: woman, I, you · What happens: reply, do, not fulfil, get out, die · To what, where: King, that, one condition, wood · 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 (woman, I, 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 King | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 King | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 King | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lord | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 King | nmod:desc |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | conj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 well | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 do | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 get | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 get | cc |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 condition | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 condition | nummod |
| 24 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 get | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fulfil | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 fulfil | obj |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 fulfil | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 fulfil | nsubj |
| 29 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 fulfil | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 fulfil | advmod |
| 31 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 condition | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 condition | punct |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 get | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 get | aux |
| 35 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 36 again | advmod |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 37 get | advmod |
| 37 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | conj |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 wood | case |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 wood | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 wood | det |
| 41 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 get | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 die | punct |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 die | cc |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 die | aux |
| 45 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | parataxis |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 hunger | case |
| 47 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 die | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 die | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | woman | King my lord | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do | can | I | that | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | not fulfil a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | you | one condition | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get out | future | you | the wood | again | upon one condition | tree rules | ||
| 5 | die | future | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/19/5/