Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 20

The two elder brothers, being of the opinion that the youngest was so foolish that he was of no account whatever in trying to obtain the throne, for they did not think he would find anything at all, had said to each other:

Who acts: youngest, Dummling, brothers · What happens: be, try, obtain, not think, find, say · To what, where: throne, anything, all, two elder brothers, each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Dummling and the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, Dummling, brothers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 brothers	nummod
3	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brothers	amod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 said	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 opinion	punct
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 opinion	cop
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 opinion	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 opinion	det
9	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brothers	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 foolish	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 youngest	det
12	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 foolish	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 foolish	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 foolish	advmod
15	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 opinion	advcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 account	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 account	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 account	cop
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 account	case
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 account	det
21	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 foolish	conj
22	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 account	appos
23	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 trying	mark
24	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 whatever	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 obtain	mark
26	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 trying	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 throne	det
28	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 obtain	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 think	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 think	mark
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 think	nsubj
32	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 think	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 think	advmod
34	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 obtain	conj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 find	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 find	aux
37	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 think	ccomp
38	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	37 find	obj
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 all	case
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 anything	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brothers	punct
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 said	aux
43	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 each	case
45	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	43 said	obl
46	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 each	fixed
47	:	:	PUNCT	_	43 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund					of the opinion	tree rules
2	is	past	the youngest				foolish property	tree rules
3	is	past	Dummling				of no account	tree rules
4	try	gerund	Dummling not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	obtain not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dummling not said here	the throne				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset throne=Theme
6	not think speech: other	past · do-support	brothers = brother					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	find	would	Dummling	anything		all		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent anything=Theme at all=Asset
8	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the two elder brothers and the opinion	each			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to each=Recipient

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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