Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 15

Soon after the parish sexton came in for a gossip, so the father told him his troubles, and how that his younger son was such a simpleton that he knew nothing and could learn nothing. "

Who acts: father, younger son · What happens: come in, tell, be, know, learn, trouble · To what, where: troubles, shivering, simpleton, nothing · 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 (father, younger son), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 came	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	5 sexton	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sexton	det
4	parish	parish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sexton	compound
5	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 gossip	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 gossip	det
10	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 told	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 father	det
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 troubles	nmod:poss
18	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 told	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 how	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 how	cc
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 came	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 simpleton	mark
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 son	nmod:poss
24	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 son	amod
25	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 simpleton	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 simpleton	cop
27	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 simpleton	det:predet
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 simpleton	det
29	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 how	nsubj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 knew	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 knew	nsubj
32	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 simpleton	advcl
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 knew	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 learn	cc
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 learn	aux
36	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 knew	conj
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 learn	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 how	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past				after the parish sexton	for a gossip; soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the father	father's troubles	shivering			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient trouble=Topic
3	is a	past	father's younger son	such simpleton				tree rules
4	know	past	father	nothing				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
5	learn	could	father not said here	nothing				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
6	trouble		father					nom trouble «cognition transitive»: 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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