Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 14
The youth remained a whole year with the third master also, and when he came home again, and his father inquired: ‘My son, what have you learnt?’ he answered: ‘Dear father, I have this year learnt what the frogs croak.’
Who acts: youth, father, I, year · What happens: remain, come, inquire, learn, answer, have · 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, I, year), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 year | amod |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 master | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 master | det |
| 9 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 master | amod |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | obl |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 remained | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 inquired | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 inquired | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 came | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 inquired | advcl |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 inquired | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 inquired | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 inquired | nsubj |
| 23 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remained | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 son | punct |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 son | punct |
| 26 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 son | nmod:poss |
| 27 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 inquired | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 learnt | punct |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 learnt | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 learnt | aux |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 learnt | nsubj |
| 32 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 son | acl:relcl |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 32 learnt | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 learnt | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 answered | nsubj |
| 36 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 learnt | parataxis |
| 37 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 father | punct |
| 38 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 father | punct |
| 39 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 father | amod |
| 40 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | parataxis |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 have | punct |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 have | nsubj |
| 43 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 father | parataxis |
| 44 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 year | det |
| 45 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 learnt | nsubj |
| 46 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 have | ccomp |
| 47 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 46 learnt | parataxis |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 croak | det |
| 49 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 croak | compound |
| 50 | croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 what | nsubj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 father | punct |
| 52 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the youth | year | with the third master | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | youth | again | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | master's father | My son | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | learn | present · perfect · passive | My son | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | past | father | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | learn | past | this year | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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