Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 31
Meanwhile the two elder brothers made fun of the idea of Dummling searching for a ring, and they decided to take no needless trouble themselves.
Who acts: two elder brothers, idea, brothers · What happens: make, search, decide, take · To what, where: fun, needless trouble
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 elder brothers, idea, 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 6 made | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brothers | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 brothers | nummod |
| 4 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brothers | amod |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 idea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 idea | det |
| 10 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fun | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Dummling | case |
| 12 | Dummling | Dummling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 idea | nmod |
| 13 | searching | search | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 idea | acl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 ring | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ring | det |
| 16 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 searching | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 decided | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 decided | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 decided | nsubj |
| 20 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 decided | xcomp |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 trouble | det |
| 24 | needless | needless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 trouble | amod |
| 25 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 26 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 take | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the two elder brothers | fun of the idea of Dummling | meanwhile property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product | |||
| 2 | search | gerund | the idea of Dummling not said here | for a ring | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for ring=Theme | ||||
| 3 | decide | past | brothers = brother | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | no needless trouble | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument trouble=Theme themselves=Destination |
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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