Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 15
When the brother heard of all this, and how a turnip had made the gardener so rich, he envied him sorely, and bethought himself how he could contrive to get the same good fortune for himself.
Who acts: brother, gardener · What happens: hear, make, envy, bethink, contrive, get · To what, where: all, turnip, king, same good fortune
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 (brother, gardener), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 envied | advcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 all | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 made | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 turnip | det |
| 12 | turnip | turnip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gardener | det |
| 16 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 rich | advmod |
| 18 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 made | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 envied | nsubj |
| 21 | envied | envy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 envied | obj |
| 23 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 21 envied | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bethought | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bethought | cc |
| 26 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 envied | conj |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 bethought | obj |
| 28 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 contrive | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 contrive | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 contrive | aux |
| 31 | contrive | contrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 bethought | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 get | mark |
| 33 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 contrive | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 fortune | det |
| 35 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 fortune | amod |
| 36 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 fortune | amod |
| 37 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 get | obj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 himself | case |
| 39 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 get | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 envied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the brother | all | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | a turnip | rich property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary gardener=Product | ||||
| 3 | envy | past | gardener | king | sorely property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | bethink | past | gardener not said here | king | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | contrive | could | gardener | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | get | to-infinitive | gardener not said here | the same good fortune | for gardener | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme for himself=Source |
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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