Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 24

Then, one day, as they were sitting before the house under a very high tree, the father said, ‘I should like to try what each of you can do in this way.’

Who acts: brothers, father, I, each · What happens: sit, say, like, try, do · To what, where: one day, high tree, way · 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 (brothers, father, I, each), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 said	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sitting	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 sitting	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sitting	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sitting	aux
9	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 day	acl
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
13	under	under	ADP	_	17 tree	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tree	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 high	advmod
16	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tree	amod
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sitting	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 father	det
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 like	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 like	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 like	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 like	aux
26	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 try	mark
28	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 like	xcomp
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 do	obj
30	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	34 do	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 you	case
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 each	nmod
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 do	aux
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 try	ccomp
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 way	case
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 way	det
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 do	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 like	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	brothers = brother	one day not said here	a high tree	before the house	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent day=Theme before house=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the father			then; day	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like	should	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	do	can	each		this way		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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