Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Water of Life, sentence 21
Thus it is with proud silly people, who think themselves above everyone else, and are too proud to ask or take advice.
Who acts: abode, proud silly people · What happens: be, think, ask, take · To what, where: people, everyone, advice
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (abode, proud silly people), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 people | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 people | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 people | cop |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 5 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 6 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 think | nsubj |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 people | parataxis |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 think | obj |
| 12 | above | above | ADP | _ | 13 everyone | case |
| 13 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 think | obl |
| 14 | else | else | ADV | _ | 13 everyone | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 proud | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 proud | cc |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 proud | cop |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 proud | advmod |
| 19 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 think | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 ask | mark |
| 21 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 proud | xcomp |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 take | cc |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ask | conj |
| 24 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | abode | with proud silly people; thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | proud silly people | people | everyone | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | proud property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=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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