Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 38
And they agreed to see whether they could not set the princess free.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: agree, see, not set · To what, where: princess · 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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 agreed | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 agreed | xcomp |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 set | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 set | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 set | advmod |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obj |
| 13 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 set | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | brothers = brother | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not set | could | brothers = brother | the princess | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient princess=Result |
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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