Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 50
His brothers, however, were hard-hearted, and said, "What could we do with you?
Who acts: brothers, we · What happens: be, say, do · 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 (brothers, we), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hearted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 brothers | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 hearted | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hearted | cop |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hearted | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 hard | punct |
| 9 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hearted | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 15 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 do | obj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 do | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 hearted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Dummerly's brothers | hearted, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Dummerly's brothers not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | could | we | with you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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