Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 2

Then said the father: ‘Hark you, my son, try as I will I can get nothing into your head.

Who acts: Hark, I · What happens: say, try, get · To what, where: father, nothing, head · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hark, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 father	det
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Hark	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 Hark	punct
7	Hark	Hark	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 try	nsubj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 Hark	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 son	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Hark	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 try	punct
13	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 get	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 get	aux
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 get	aux
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 try	advcl
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 get	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the father		then	tree rules
2	try	infinitive	Hark				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	get	can · future	I	nothing	your head		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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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