Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 1

‘Dear children,’ said a poor man to his four sons, ‘I have nothing to give you; you must go out into the wide world and try your luck.

Who acts: Dear children, I, you · What happens: say, have, give, go out, try · To what, where: four sons, nothing, you, wide world, luck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Four Clever Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear children, I, you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 children	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 children	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 children	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 sons	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sons	nmod:poss
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 sons	nummod
13	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sons	conj
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 have	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 give	mark
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 nothing	acl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 go	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 go	aux
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
26	out	out	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	30 world	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 world	det
29	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 world	amod
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 try	cc
32	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 go	conj
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 luck	nmod:poss
34	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 try	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Dear children		man's four sons			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient
2	have	present	I	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	give	to-infinitive	I not said here	nothing not said here	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	go out	must	you			the wide world	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	try	infinitive	you not said here	your luck				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality

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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