Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 34
‘Well done, sons!’ said the old man; ‘you have made good use of your time, and learnt something worth the knowing; but I am sure I do not know which ought to have the prize.
Who acts: old man, you, I · What happens: do, say, make, learn, know, be · To what, where: sons, good use, something, prize, time · 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 (old man, you, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 done | advmod |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sons | punct |
| 5 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 done | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | aux |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 use | amod |
| 18 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 time | nmod:poss |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 use | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 learnt | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 learnt | cc |
| 24 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 25 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 24 learnt | obj |
| 26 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 something | amod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 knowing | det |
| 28 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 worth | advcl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 sure | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 sure | cc |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 sure | nsubj |
| 32 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 sure | cop |
| 33 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 learnt | conj |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 know | nsubj |
| 35 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 know | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 know | advmod |
| 37 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 sure | ccomp |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 have | nsubj |
| 39 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 have | aux |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 have | mark |
| 41 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 know | ccomp |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 prize | det |
| 43 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 have | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | participle | sons | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | present · perfect | you | good use of your time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product | ||||
| 4 | learn | past | the old man not said here | something | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 5 | know | gerund | the old man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | have | ought | the prize | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Patient | |||||
| 9 | use | your time | nom use «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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