Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 7

‘I am going to try my luck in the world, and should like to begin by learning some art or trade,’ answered he.

Who acts: I · What happens: go, try, like, begin, learn, answer · To what, where: luck, world, art, man · 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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 answered	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 try	mark
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 luck	nmod:poss
8	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 try	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 try	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 like	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 like	cc
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 like	aux
15	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 try	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 begin	mark
17	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 like	xcomp
18	by	by	SCONJ	_	19 learning	mark
19	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 begin	advcl
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 art	det
21	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 learning	obj
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 trade	cc
23	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 art	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
26	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 answered	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	I				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	try	to-infinitive	I not said here	my luck		the world	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality
3	like	should	I not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	begin not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	learn	gerund	I not said here	some art or trade			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Topic
6	answer speech: assert	past			man		tree rules

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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