Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 10
‘Yes,’ said they, ‘she is beautiful indeed, but still ‘tis a pity that her brothers should have been lost for her sake.’
Who acts: people, daughter · What happens: say, be, ti, lose · To what, where: pity, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Seven Ravens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, daughter), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beautiful | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 beautiful | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 beautiful | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 beautiful | cop |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 11 beautiful | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tis | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 tis | cc |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 tis | advmod |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 tis | punct |
| 17 | tis | ti | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pity | det |
| 19 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tis | obj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 lost | mark |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 lost | aux |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 lost | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 lost | aux:pass |
| 26 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 tis | advcl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 sake | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 sake | nmod:poss |
| 29 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lost | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | daughter | beautiful, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ti | present | people not said here | a pity | still | tree rules | |||
| 4 | lose | should · perfect · passive | daughter's brothers | for daughter's sake | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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