Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, sentence 62
‘Well,’ thought the young man, ‘it is no hard matter to keep that advice.’
Who acts: it · What happens: think, be, keep · To what, where: young man, hard matter, advice
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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 | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 thought | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 matter | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 matter | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 matter | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 matter | cop |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 matter | det |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 matter | amod |
| 15 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | appos |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 keep | mark |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 matter | acl |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 advice | det |
| 19 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the young man | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | no hard matter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | that advice | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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