Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 24
But when the two brothers heard this, they gave the old King no rest, saying--
Who acts: two brothers, brothers · What happens: hear, give, say · To what, where: this, rest, old King · 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 (two brothers, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 heard | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brothers | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 brothers | nummod |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gave | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 King | amod |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 rest | det |
| 15 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saying | punct |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 gave | advcl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the two brothers | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give | past | brothers = brother | no rest | the old King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient rest=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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