Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 13
The father answered: ‘Your brothers have hurt themselves with it, leave it alone, you do not understand anything about it.’
Who acts: father, you · What happens: answer, hurt, leave, not understand · To what, where: brothers, wood, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurt | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurt | punct |
| 6 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hurt | aux |
| 9 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 leave | advcl |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 hurt | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hurt | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurt | punct |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 leave | obj |
| 16 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 14 leave | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 understand | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 understand | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 understand | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 understand | advmod |
| 21 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 leave | advcl |
| 22 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 understand | obj |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 anything | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the father | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hurt | present · perfect · passive | Your brothers | with wood | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer themselves=Result | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | wood | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not understand | present · do-support | you | anything | about wood | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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