Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 51

But she did not answer; and then he questioned her in all the languages that he knew, but she remained dumb to all, as a fish.

Who acts: maiden, King · What happens: not answer, question, know, remain · To what, where: maiden, languages

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 (maiden, King), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 answer	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 answer	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 answer	advmod
5	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 questioned	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 questioned	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 questioned	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 questioned	nsubj
10	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	parataxis
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 questioned	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 languages	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 languages	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 languages	det
15	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 questioned	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 knew	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knew	nsubj
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 languages	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 remained	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 remained	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 remained	nsubj
22	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 questioned	conj
23	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 remained	xcomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 dumb	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fish	punct
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 fish	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 fish	det
29	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 remained	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	maiden						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	question speech: other	past	King		maiden	all languages	then		vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	know	past	King	all languages					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
4	remain	past	maiden					as a fish; dumb property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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