Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 35
Oh, that a time might soon come for you to turn your skill to some account!’
Who acts: time, you · What happens: come, turn · To what, where: skill, account
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 (time, 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 come | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | nsubj |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 come | advmod |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 turn | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 turn | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 turn | mark |
| 12 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 come | advcl |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 skill | nmod:poss |
| 14 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turn | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 account | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 account | det |
| 17 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turn | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | might | a time | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | to-infinitive | you | your skill | some account | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent skill=Theme to account=Trajectory |
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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