Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 78
Ah," she replied, "if I can't get some of the rampion which is in the garden behind our house, to eat, I shall die."
Who acts: desire, I, rampion · What happens: reply, not get, be, eat, die · To what, where: some, garden
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, I, rampion), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 replied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 10 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 get | advmod |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 get | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rampion | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rampion | det |
| 16 | rampion | rampion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 some | nmod |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 garden | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 garden | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 garden | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 garden | det |
| 21 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rampion | acl:relcl |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 house | nmod:poss |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 garden | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 eat | punct |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 eat | mark |
| 27 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 die | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 die | nsubj |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 die | aux |
| 31 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 eat | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | desire | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not get a condition, not said to happen | can | I | some | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the rampion | the garden | behind our house | tree rules | |||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | die | shall | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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