Grimms' Fairy Tales, The White Snake, sentence 34
What can we do, but lie here and starve?’
Who acts: we · What happens: do, lie, starve
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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lie | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 lie | cc |
| 7 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 do | conj |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lie | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 starve | cc |
| 10 | starve | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lie | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | lie | infinitive | we not said here | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | starve | infinitive | we not said here | 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: «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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