Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 11
I have a brother, who is rich, and your majesty knows him well, and all the world knows him; but because I am poor, everybody forgets me.’
Who acts: I, brother, majesty, world, everybody · What happens: have, be, know, forget · To what, where: brother, gardener, me
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, brother, majesty, world), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rich | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 rich | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rich | cop |
| 8 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knows | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 knows | cc |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 12 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knows | nsubj |
| 13 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knows | obj |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 knows | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knows | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 knows | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 world | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knows | nsubj |
| 21 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 knows | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 knows | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 forgets | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 forgets | cc |
| 25 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 28 poor | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 poor | nsubj |
| 27 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 poor | cop |
| 28 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 forgets | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 poor | punct |
| 30 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 31 forgets | nsubj |
| 31 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 forgets | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a brother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a brother | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | present | your majesty | gardener | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | know | present | all world | gardener | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | present | I | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | forget | present | everybody | me | 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: «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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