Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 45
"Learn what you will," replied the father, "all is the same to me.
Who acts: father, all · What happens: learn, reply, be · To what, where: father · 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, all), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Learn | punct |
| 2 | Learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 Learn | obj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 will | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Learn | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Learn | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 father | det |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 same | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 same | punct |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 same | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 same | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 same | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 same | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn in a quote | infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the father | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | all | the father = father | same property | tree rules |
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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