Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 5

Then the eldest said, ‘Here we must part; but this day four years we will come back to this spot, and in the meantime each must try what he can do for himself.’

Who acts: eldest, we, day years, each, man · What happens: say, part, come back, try, do · To what, where: spot, meantime · 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 (eldest, we, day years, 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	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eldest	det
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 part	punct
7	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 part	advmod
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 part	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 part	aux
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	parataxis
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 years	cc
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 years	compound
15	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 day	flat
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 come	nsubj
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 part	parataxis
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 spot	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 spot	det
23	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 try	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 try	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 meantime	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 meantime	det
28	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 try	obl
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	31 try	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 try	aux
31	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	conj
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 do	obj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 do	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 do	aux
35	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 try	xcomp
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 himself	case
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 do	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 part	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 part	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	participle	the eldest		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	part	must	we	here			tree rules
3	come back	future	day years	this spot			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial_Location
4	try	must	each	the meantime			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	do not said to happen	can	man			for man	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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