Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Golden Goose, sentence 51
We could make nothing of you; see to what you have brought yourself"; and so turned a deaf ear.
Who acts: We, you · What happens: make, see, bring, turn · To what, where: nothing, yourself, deaf ear
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 (We, 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 see | obl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 brought | aux |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 brought | obj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 turned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turned | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 turned | advmod |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 ear | det |
| 21 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ear | amod |
| 22 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turned | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | could | We | nothing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Product | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | We not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | bring | present · perfect | you | yourself | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn in a quote | past | We not said here | a deaf ear | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
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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