Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 1

A certain father had two sons, the elder of who was smart and sensible, and could do everything, but the younger was stupid and could neither learn nor understand anything, and when people saw him they said: ‘There’s a fellow who will give his father some trouble!’

Who acts: certain father, elder, people, fellow · What happens: have, be, do, learn, understand, see · To what, where: two sons, everything, anything, father, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain father, elder, people, fellow), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 father	det
2	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 father	amod
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sons	nummod
6	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 elder	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 elder	det
9	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sons	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 smart	case
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 smart	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 smart	cop
13	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 elder	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sensible	cc
15	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 smart	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 do	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 do	cc
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 do	aux
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	conj
20	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 do	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stupid	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 stupid	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 younger	det
24	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 stupid	advmod
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 stupid	cop
26	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 do	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 learn	cc
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 learn	aux
29	neither	neither	ADV	_	30 learn	advmod
30	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 stupid	conj
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	32 understand	cc
32	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 learn	conj
33	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 understand	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 said	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 said	cc
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 saw	advmod
37	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 saw	nsubj
38	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 said	advcl
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 saw	obj
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 said	nsubj
41	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	parataxis
42	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 ’s	punct
43	‘	'	PUNCT	_	45 ’s	punct
44	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	45 ’s	expl
45	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 said	ccomp
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 fellow	det
47	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 ’s	obj
48	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 give	nsubj
49	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 give	aux
50	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 fellow	acl:relcl
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 father	nmod:poss
52	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 give	iobj
53	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	54 trouble	det
54	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 give	obj
55	!	!	PUNCT	_	45 ’s	punct
56	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	a certain father	two sons			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	is	past	the elder			smart property	tree rules
3	be		the elder not said here				tree rules
4	do	could	a certain father not said here	everything			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
5	is	past				stupid property	tree rules
6	learn	could				neither property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	understand	infinitive		anything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
8	see	past	people	father			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
9	say speech: assert	past	people				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
10	give	future	a fellow	some trouble	father's father		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent father=Recipient trouble=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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