Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 37

Then the four brothers said to each other, ‘Here is a chance for us; let us try what we can do.’

Who acts: four brothers, each, us, we · What happens: say, be, let, try, do · To what, where: chance, us · 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 (four brothers, each, us, we), 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	5 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 brothers	nummod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 each	case
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 chance	nsubj
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 each	fixed
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 each	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 each	punct
11	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 each	advmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 chance	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chance	det
14	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 us	case
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 said	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 do	obj
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 try	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the four brothers		then	for us	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	present	each	a chance			tree rules
3	let	infinitive		us			tree rules
4	try	infinitive	us not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	do	can	we				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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