Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 54
But to make up for your loss, I will give each of you, as a reward for his skill, half a kingdom.’
Who acts: I · What happens: make up, give · To what, where: each
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 make | cc |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 make | mark |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 make | compound:prt |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 loss | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 loss | nmod:poss |
| 7 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | parataxis |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 give | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 each | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reward | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 reward | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 reward | det |
| 18 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 skill | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 skill | nmod:poss |
| 21 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reward | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 kingdom | punct |
| 23 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 25 kingdom | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 kingdom | det |
| 25 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reward | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | to-infinitive | for your loss | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | future | I | each | as a reward for king's skill and half kingdom | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |
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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