Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 99
Then one of them took the other aside and said, "Hark, the little fellow would make our fortune if we exhibited him in a large town, for money.
Who acts: one, Hark, we · What happens: take, say, make, exhibit · To what, where: other, fortune, large town · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, Hark, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 took | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 13 | Hark | Hark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 make | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fellow | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fellow | amod |
| 17 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | aux |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 exhibited | mark |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 exhibited | nsubj |
| 24 | exhibited | exhibit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 exhibited | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 town | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 town | det |
| 28 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 town | amod |
| 29 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 exhibited | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 money | punct |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 money | case |
| 32 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 town | appos |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | one of sons | the other | then | aside property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one of sons not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | would | Hark | our fortune | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Product | ||||
| 4 | exhibit a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | we | fortune | a large town | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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