Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 15
It is a noble art, for nothing can be hidden from you, when once you understand the stars.’
Who acts: gazer, you · What happens: be, hide, understand · To what, where: noble art, nothing, stars
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 (gazer, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 art | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 art | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 art | det |
| 4 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 art | amod |
| 5 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hidden | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 hidden | mark |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hidden | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hidden | aux:pass |
| 11 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 art | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 hidden | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 understand | punct |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 understand | mark |
| 16 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 18 understand | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 understand | nsubj |
| 18 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 art | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stars | det |
| 20 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 understand | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 art | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 art | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | gazer | a noble art | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | can · passive | nothing | from you | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient from you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | understand | present | you | the stars | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer star=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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