Grimm's Fairy Stories, Dummling and the Three Feathers, sentence 38
The young man regarded this a trifle despondently, for it had no great resemblance to what he was seeking.
Who acts: young man, trifle, man · What happens: regard, have, seek · To what, where: this, great resemblance
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 (young man, trifle, man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 regarded | nsubj |
| 4 | regarded | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 regarded | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 trifle | det |
| 7 | trifle | trifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 regarded | obj |
| 8 | despondently | despondently | ADV | _ | 4 regarded | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 had | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 regarded | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 resemblance | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 resemblance | amod |
| 15 | resemblance | resemblance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 what | case |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 had | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seeking | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seeking | aux |
| 20 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 regarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regard | past | the young man | this | despondently property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent this=Theme trifle=Attribute | |||
| 2 | have | past | trifle | no great resemblance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resemblance=Patient | ||||
| 3 | seek | past · progressive | man | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: 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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