Grimm's Fairy Stories, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, sentence 6
You are growing stout and big; you must learn some trade to get your living by.
Who acts: You, your · What happens: grow, be, learn, get, live · To what, where: trade, living
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 (You, your), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 stout | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stout | cop |
| 3 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stout | amod |
| 4 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 big | cc |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stout | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 learn | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 learn | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 learn | aux |
| 10 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stout | parataxis |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 trade | det |
| 12 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 learn | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 learn | xcomp |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 living | nmod:poss |
| 16 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 get | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stout | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | You | stout property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | You not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | learn | must | you | some trade | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | you not said here | your living | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer living=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | live | your | 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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