Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 17
The third brother met a huntsman, who took him with him, and taught him so well all that belonged to hunting, that he became very clever in the craft of the woods; and when he left his master he gave him a bow, and said, ‘Whatever you shoot at with this bow you will be sure to hit.’
Who acts: third brother, huntsman, that, man, you · What happens: meet, take, teach, belong, become, leave · To what, where: huntsman, man, master, bow, craft, woods · 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 (third brother, huntsman, that, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | nsubj |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 huntsman | det |
| 6 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 huntsman | acl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 taught | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 taught | cc |
| 15 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 taught | obj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 well | advmod |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 all | advmod |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 belonged | det:predet |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 belonged | nsubj |
| 21 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 taught | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 hunting | case |
| 23 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 belonged | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 became | punct |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 became | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 became | nsubj |
| 27 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 belonged | conj |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 clever | advmod |
| 29 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 became | xcomp |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 craft | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 craft | det |
| 32 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 clever | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 woods | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 woods | det |
| 35 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 craft | nmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 gave | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 gave | cc |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 left | advmod |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 left | nsubj |
| 40 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 gave | advcl |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 master | nmod:poss |
| 42 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 left | obj |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 gave | nsubj |
| 44 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | parataxis |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 gave | iobj |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 bow | det |
| 47 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 gave | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 said | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 said | cc |
| 50 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 gave | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 Whatever | punct |
| 52 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 53 Whatever | punct |
| 53 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 63 sure | advcl |
| 54 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 55 shoot | nsubj |
| 55 | shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 Whatever | acl:relcl |
| 56 | at | at | ADP | _ | 55 shoot | obl |
| 57 | with | with | ADP | _ | 59 bow | case |
| 58 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 59 bow | det |
| 59 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 shoot | obl |
| 60 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 63 sure | nsubj |
| 61 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 63 sure | aux |
| 62 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 63 sure | cop |
| 63 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 said | ccomp |
| 64 | to | to | PART | _ | 65 hit | mark |
| 65 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 63 sure | xcomp |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
| 67 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the third brother | a huntsman | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huntsman=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | a huntsman | man | with man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 3 | teach speech: other | past | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | belong | past | that | to hunting | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | become | past | man | clever property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | leave | past | man | man's master | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme | ||||
| 7 | give | past | man | a bow | craft | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bow=Theme | |||
| 8 | say speech: assert | past | man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | shoot | present | you | with this bow | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with bow=Instrument | ||||
| 10 | is | future | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | hit | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 12 | craft | the woods | nom craft «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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