Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 55
So the brothers agreed that this plan would be much better than either quarrelling or marrying a lady who had no mind to have them.
Who acts: brothers, plan, lady · What happens: agree, be, marry, have · To what, where: lady, mind, brothers
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, plan, lady), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 agreed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 better | mark |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 plan | det |
| 7 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 better | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 better | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 better | cop |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 better | advmod |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 agreed | ccomp |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 quarrelling | case |
| 13 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 quarrelling | det |
| 14 | quarrelling | quarrelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 better | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 marrying | cc |
| 16 | marrying | marry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 quarrelling | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lady | det |
| 18 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 marrying | obj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lady | acl:relcl |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 mind | det |
| 22 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 have | mark |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 mind | acl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 have | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the brothers | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | would | this plan | than either quarrelling; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | gerund | this plan not said here | a lady | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | past | a lady | no mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | a lady not said here | brothers = brother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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