Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 61

The King, however, would not believe it, and suffered no one to do any injury to his wife, who sat composedly sewing at her shirts and paying attention to nothing else.

Who acts: King, wife · What happens: not believe, suffer, do, sit, sew, pay · To what, where: murderess, one, injury, shirts, attention

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 (King, wife), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 believe	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 King	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 believe	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 believe	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 believe	advmod
8	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 believe	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 suffered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 suffered	cc
12	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 believe	advcl
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 suffered	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 one	acl
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 injury	det
18	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 wife	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sat	nsubj
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wife	acl:relcl
25	composedly	composedly	ADV	_	26 sewing	advmod
26	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sat	advcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 shirts	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 shirts	nmod:poss
29	shirts	shirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sewing	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 paying	cc
31	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sewing	conj
32	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 paying	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 nothing	case
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	31 paying	obl
35	else	else	ADV	_	34 nothing	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 believe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not believe	would	the King	murderess		however property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	suffer	past	the King not said here	no one			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	do	to-infinitive	the King not said here	any injury		to King's wife	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Eventuality
4	sit	past	King's wife				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sew	gerund	King's wife not said here		woman's shirts	composedly property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at shirt=Destination
6	pay	gerund	King's wife not said here	attention		to nothing	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset

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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