Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 7
"I have a daughter," said the old woman, "who is as beautiful as any one you can find in die whole world, and well deserves to be your bride.
Who acts: old woman, you · What happens: have, say, be, find, deserve · To what, where: daughter, one, die, bride · 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 (old woman, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 daughter | det |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beautiful | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 beautiful | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 beautiful | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 beautiful | cop |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beautiful | obl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 find | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 find | aux |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 one | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 die | case |
| 25 | die | die | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 find | obl |
| 26 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 world | amod |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 die | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 deserves | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 deserves | cc |
| 30 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 deserves | advmod |
| 31 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 beautiful | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 bride | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 bride | cop |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bride | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 deserves | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the old woman = woman | a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | as any one; beautiful property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | can | you | any one not said here | die and whole world | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||
| 5 | deserve in a quote | present | well property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | your bride | 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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