Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 12

The elder brother laughed when he heard this speech, and thought to himself, "Ah! my brother is such a simpleton that he cannot earn his own living.

Who acts: elder brother, brother · What happens: laugh, hear, think, be, not earn, live · To what, where: speech, brother, simpleton, own living · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder brother, brother), 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 brother	det
2	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	advcl
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 speech	det
9	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
12	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 laughed	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 thought	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 simpleton	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 simpleton	punct
17	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	24 simpleton	discourse
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 Ah	punct
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 brother	nmod:poss
20	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 simpleton	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 simpleton	cop
22	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	24 simpleton	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 simpleton	det
24	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	ccomp
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 earn	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 earn	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 earn	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 earn	advmod
29	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 simpleton	acl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 living	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 living	amod
32	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 earn	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	laugh	past	the elder brother			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	brother	this speech		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus
3	think speech: other	participle	the elder brother not said here		brother	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	my brother	such simpleton		tree rules
5	not earn in a quote	can	brother	brother's own living		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme
6	live in a quote		brother			nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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