Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 58
She who cannot speak is not worthy of a King."
Who acts: wench · What happens: not speak, not be · 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 (wench), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 worthy | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 speak | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 speak | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 speak | advmod |
| 5 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 She | acl:relcl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 worthy | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 worthy | advmod |
| 8 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 worthy | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 worthy | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 worthy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | can | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not is | present | wench | of a King; worthy 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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