Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 14
But his father replied, "Your brothers have both maimed themselves; you had better stop at home, for you know nothing of the job."
Who acts: father, you · What happens: reply, maim, have, know · To what, where: brothers, better stop, home, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, you), 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 | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 maimed | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 maimed | punct |
| 7 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 maimed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 maimed | aux |
| 10 | both | both | ADV | _ | 11 maimed | advmod |
| 11 | maimed | maim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 maimed | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 replied | conj |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 stop | amod |
| 17 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 home | case |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 know | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | parataxis |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 know | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 job | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 job | det |
| 27 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 nothing | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Father's father | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | maim in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Your brothers | both property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | you | better stop | home | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stop=Patient | |||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | you | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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