Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 2
Begin by learning some craft or another, and see how you can get on.’
Who acts: you · What happens: begin, learn, see, get on · To what, where: craft · 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 (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 | Begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 learning | mark |
| 3 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Begin | advcl |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 craft | det |
| 5 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learning | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 another | cc |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 craft | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 see | cc |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Begin | conj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 get | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 see | ccomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Begin | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Begin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | imperative | you not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | learn | gerund | you not said here | some craft | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent craft=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | get on | can | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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