Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 76
This desire increased every day, and as she knew that she could not get any of it, she quite pined away, and looked pale and miserable.
Who acts: desire · What happens: increase, know, not get, pine away, look · To what, where: any · 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 (desire), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 desire | det |
| 2 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 increased | nsubj |
| 3 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 increased | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knew | cc |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 knew | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 increased | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 get | advmod |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 knew | ccomp |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 get | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 any | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pined | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pined | nsubj |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 pined | advmod |
| 22 | pined | pine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 increased | parataxis |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 pined | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 looked | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 looked | cc |
| 26 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 pined | conj |
| 27 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 looked | xcomp |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 miserable | cc |
| 29 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pale | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | past | this desire | day | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | know | past | desire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not get | could | desire | any | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | pine away | past | desire | away property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | look | past | desire not said here | pale property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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