Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Three Languages, sentence 5
At the end of this time, he came home again, and his father asked: ‘Now, my son, what have you learnt?’
Who acts: youth, father · What happens: come, ask, learn · To what, where: end, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | parataxis |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 son | punct |
| 19 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 son | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 son | punct |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 learnt | punct |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 learnt | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 learnt | aux |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 learnt | nsubj |
| 27 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 son | parataxis |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 27 learnt | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | youth | at the end of this time; again | home property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | youth's 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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