Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 1
An aged count once lived in Switzerland, who had an only son, but he was stupid, and could learn nothing.
Who acts: aged count, Switzerland, count · What happens: live, have, be, learn · To what, where: Switzerland, only son, nothing
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Languages. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aged count, Switzerland, count), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 count | det |
| 2 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 count | amod |
| 3 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 lived | advmod |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Switzerland | case |
| 7 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Switzerland | acl:relcl |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 12 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 son | amod |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stupid | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 stupid | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stupid | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stupid | cop |
| 18 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lived | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 learn | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 learn | cc |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 learn | aux |
| 22 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 stupid | parataxis |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 learn | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a aged count | Switzerland | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in switzerland=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | Switzerland | a only son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | count | stupid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | learn | could | nothing | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
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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