Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 89

My wife saw your rampion from the window, and felt such a longing for it that she would have died if she had not got some to eat."

Who acts: wife, mercy · What happens: see, feel, die, not get, eat · To what, where: rampion, window, longing, some

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 (wife, mercy), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 rampion	nmod:poss
5	rampion	rampion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 felt	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 felt	cc
11	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 longing	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 longing	det
14	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 felt	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 felt	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 died	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 died	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 died	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 died	aux
21	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 felt	advcl
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 got	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 got	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 got	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 got	advmod
26	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 died	advcl
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 got	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 eat	mark
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 some	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	My wife	your rampion	the window		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rampion=Stimulus
2	feel	past		such longing		for longing	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent longing=Location for it=Theme
3	die	would · perfect	mercy				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	not get a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	mercy	some			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus
5	eat	to-infinitive	mercy not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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