Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 22

Not knowing what better to do, he came into the plan, and learnt tailoring from the beginning; and when he left his master, he gave him a needle, and said, ‘You can sew anything with this, be it as soft as an egg or as hard as steel; and the joint will be so fine that no seam will be seen.’

Who acts: man, You, joint · What happens: not know, do, come, learn, tailor, leave · To what, where: plan, beginning, master, needle, craft, anything · 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 (man, You, joint), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 knowing	advmod
2	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 came	advcl
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 knowing	obj
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 what	amod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 better	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 knowing	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 plan	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plan	det
12	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 learnt	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 learnt	cc
15	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
16	tailoring	tailor	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 learnt	xcomp
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 beginning	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 beginning	det
19	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tailoring	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 gave	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gave	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 left	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 left	nsubj
24	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 gave	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 master	nmod:poss
26	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 left	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 left	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	nsubj
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	iobj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 needle	det
32	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gave	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 said	cc
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sew	punct
37	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	40 sew	mark
38	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 sew	nsubj
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 sew	aux
40	sew	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 said	ccomp
41	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	40 sew	obj
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 this	case
43	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 sew	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 be	punct
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 soft	cop
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 be	obj
47	as	as	ADV	_	48 soft	advmod
48	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 sew	conj
49	as	as	ADP	_	51 egg	case
50	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 egg	det
51	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 soft	obl
52	or	or	CCONJ	_	54 hard	cc
53	as	as	ADV	_	54 hard	advmod
54	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 egg	conj
55	as	as	ADP	_	56 steel	case
56	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 hard	obl
57	;	;	PUNCT	_	64 fine	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 fine	cc
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 joint	det
60	joint	joint	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 fine	nsubj
61	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 fine	aux
62	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	64 fine	cop
63	so	so	ADV	_	64 fine	advmod
64	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 came	conj
65	that	that	SCONJ	_	70 seen	mark
66	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	67 seam	det
67	seam	seam	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 seen	nsubj:pass
68	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	70 seen	aux
69	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	70 seen	aux:pass
70	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	64 fine	advcl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
72	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	gerund	man not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	do	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	man			the plan			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into plan=Initial_Location
4	learn	past	man not said here						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	tailor	gerund	man not said here				from the beginning		vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
6	leave	past	man	man's master					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme
7	give	past	man	a needle	craft				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient needle=Theme
8	say speech: assert	past	man not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	sew	can	You	anything				with this	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient with this=Co-Patient
10	is	infinitive	You not said here					as a egg; soft property	tree rules
11	is	future	the joint					fine property	tree rules
12	see	future · passive		no seam					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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