Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Four Clever Brothers, sentence 9
‘No,’ said the other, ‘that is not an honest calling, and what can one look to earn by it in the end but the gallows?’
Who acts: that, one · What happens: say, not be, look, earn · To what, where: other, honest calling, end · 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 (that, one), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 calling | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 calling | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 calling | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 calling | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 calling | advmod |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 calling | det |
| 14 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 calling | amod |
| 15 | calling | calling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 look | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 look | cc |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 look | obl |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 look | aux |
| 20 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 look | nsubj |
| 21 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 calling | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 earn | mark |
| 23 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 look | xcomp |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 earn | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 end | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 end | det |
| 28 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 earn | obl |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 gallows | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 gallows | det |
| 31 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 look | conj |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 calling | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 calling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not is a | present | that | a honest calling | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | can | one | a honest calling | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | earn | to-infinitive | one not said here | in the end | by calling | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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