Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 33

We must shift for ourselves, and yet we cannot fly!

Who acts: We · What happens: shift, not fly

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 shift	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 shift	aux
3	shift	shift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 ourselves	case
5	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 shift	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fly	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fly	cc
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 fly	advmod
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 fly	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fly	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 fly	advmod
12	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shift	conj
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 shift	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shift	must	We					for ourselves	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	not fly	can	we				yet		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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