Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 13
He who would make a good hedge must learn betimes to bend."
Who acts: brother, good hedge · What happens: make, learn, bend
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 (brother, good hedge), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hedge | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hedge | amod |
| 7 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 learn | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 learn | aux |
| 9 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | ccomp |
| 10 | betimes | betimes | ADV | _ | 12 bend | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bend | mark |
| 12 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 learn | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | would | brother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | learn | must | a good hedge | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bend | to-infinitive | a good hedge not said here | betimes property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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