Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 11

So the young man agreed to follow his trade, and he soon showed himself so clever, that nothing could escape him that he had once set his mind upon.

Who acts: young man, man, nothing · What happens: agree, follow, show, escape, set, trade · To what, where: trade, man

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 (young man, man, nothing), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 agreed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 agreed	nsubj
5	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 follow	mark
7	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 agreed	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 trade	nmod:poss
9	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 follow	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 showed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 showed	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 showed	nsubj
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 showed	advmod
14	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 agreed	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 showed	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 clever	advmod
17	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 showed	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 escape	punct
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 nothing	det
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 escape	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 escape	aux
22	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 showed	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 escape	obj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 set	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 set	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 set	aux
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 set	advmod
28	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 escape	advcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mind	nmod:poss
30	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 set	obj
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 set	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the young man			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	follow not said to happen	to-infinitive	the young man not said here	man's trade		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trade=Theme
3	show	past	man	man	clever, soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
4	escape	could	nothing	man		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Initial_Location
5	set	past · perfect · passive		man	once property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme mind=Destination
6	trade		man			nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent
7	mind		man			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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