Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 10

When he came back the father again asked: ‘My son, what have you learnt?’

Who acts: youth, father · What happens: come back, ask, learn · To what, where: son

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 (youth, father), 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	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	advcl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 father	det
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 father	advmod
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 son	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 son	punct
11	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 learnt	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 learnt	nsubj:pass
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 learnt	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 learnt	nsubj
17	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 son	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 learnt	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come back	past	youth		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	the father		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	learn	present · perfect · passive		My son	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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