Grimms' Fairy Tales, Iron Hans, sentence 158
She is the very image of my dead wife: unless I have her, I shall not find any bride upon the whole earth, and you say there must be a queen.’
Who acts: daughter, I, you, queen · What happens: be, have, not find, say · To what, where: image, daughter, bride · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Iron Hans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, I, you, queen), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 image | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 image | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 image | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 image | advmod |
| 5 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wife | amod |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 image | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
| 11 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 13 have | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 have | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 find | advmod |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 image | parataxis |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 bride | det |
| 21 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 earth | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 earth | det |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 earth | amod |
| 25 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bride | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 say | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 say | cc |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 say | nsubj |
| 29 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | conj |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 be | expl |
| 31 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 be | aux |
| 32 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 say | ccomp |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 queen | det |
| 34 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 be | nsubj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 image | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 image | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | daughter | the image | of my dead wife | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | I | daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not find | shall | I | any bride | upon the whole earth | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Topic | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | be | must | a queen | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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