Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 62

When a second child was born, the false stepmother used the same deceit, but the King again would not listen to her words, saying, "She is too pious and good to act so; could she but speak and defend herself, her innocence would come to light."

Who acts: false stepmother, King, stepmother, innocence · What happens: bear, use, not listen, say, be, act · To what, where: second child, same deceit, stepmother, light · 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 (false stepmother, King, stepmother, innocence), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 born	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
3	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 child	amod
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 born	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 born	aux:pass
6	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 used	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 born	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stepmother	det
9	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stepmother	amod
10	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 used	nsubj
11	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 deceit	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 deceit	amod
14	deceit	deceit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 used	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 listen	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 listen	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 listen	nsubj
19	again	again	ADV	_	18 King	advmod
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 listen	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 listen	advmod
22	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 used	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 words	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 words	nmod:poss
25	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 listen	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 saying	punct
27	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 listen	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 pious	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 pious	punct
30	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 pious	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 pious	cop
32	too	too	ADV	_	33 pious	advmod
33	pious	pious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 saying	ccomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 good	cc
35	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 pious	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 act	mark
37	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 good	advcl
38	so	so	ADV	_	37 act	advmod
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 speak	punct
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 speak	aux
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 speak	nsubj
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 speak	cc
43	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 used	parataxis
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 defend	cc
45	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 speak	conj
46	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 defend	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 come	punct
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 innocence	nmod:poss
49	innocence	innocence	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 come	nsubj
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 come	aux
51	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 speak	conj
52	to	to	ADP	_	53 light	case
53	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 come	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 used	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		a second child			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	use	past	the false stepmother	the same deceit			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent deceit=Theme clause=Eventuality
3	not listen	would	the King			to stepmother's words	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the King not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	stepmother			pious property	tree rules
6	be in a quote		stepmother not said here				tree rules
7	act in a quote	to-infinitive	stepmother not said here				vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	speak speech: other in a quote	could	stepmother				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	defend in a quote	infinitive	stepmother not said here	stepmother			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary
10	come in a quote	would	stepmother's innocence		light		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to light=Initial_Location
11	word		stepmother				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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