Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 30
Wert thou but once here, my friend, though wouldst feel and own the power of knowledge.
Who acts: thou, though · What happens: be, feel, own · To what, where: power
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 (thou, though), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2591:1668): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wert | be | AUX | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 here | cop |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 here | nsubj |
| 3 | but | but | ADV | _ | 4 once | advmod |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 here | advmod |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 feel | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 friend | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friend | nmod:poss |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feel | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 friend | punct |
| 10 | though | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Typo=Yes | 12 feel | nsubj |
| 11 | wouldst | would | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 12 feel | aux |
| 12 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 own | cc |
| 14 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 feel | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 power | det |
| 16 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 own | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 knowledge | case |
| 18 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 power | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | thou | here, once property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | would | though | my friend vocative | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | own | infinitive | though not said here | the power of knowledge | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot power=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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