Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 18
The youngest brother likewise met a man who asked him what he wished to do.
Who acts: youngest brother, man · What happens: meet, ask, wish, do · To what, where: 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 (youngest brother, 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 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | nsubj |
| 4 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 5 met | advmod |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wished | nsubj |
| 13 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wished | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the youngest brother | a man | likewise property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a man | a man | man | tree rules | |||
| 3 | wish | past | man | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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